Japanese destroyer Hatsuharu

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Career Japanese Navy Ensign
Ordered:
Laid down:
Launched: 27 February 1933
Commissioned:
Fate: Sunk in action,
14 November 1942
Struck: 10 January 1945
General Characteristics
Displacement: 1,802 tons
Length: 359 ft 3 in (109.5 m)
Beam: 32 ft 9 in (10.0 m)
Draft: 9 ft 11 in (3.0 m)
Speed: 36 knots (67 km/h)
Complement: 200
Armament: 5 × 5 in (127 mm) / 50 caliber DP guns,
up to 21 × 25 mm AA guns,
up to 4 × 13 mm AA guns,
9 × Type 93 torpedo tubes,
36 depth charges

Hatsuharu was the lead ship of her class of destroyer in the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her name means "Spring Rains".

On 13–14 November 1944, Hatsuharu was sunk in a U.S. air raid on Manila, Philippines. Near-misses led to flooding and fires; she sank upright in shallow water in Manila Bay (14°35′N 120°50′E).


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Hatsuharu-class destroyer

Hatsuharu | Ariake | Hatsushimo | Nenohi | Wakaba | Yugure

List of ships of the Japanese Navy