Japanese destroyer Natsuzuki

Career (Japan)
Name: Natsuzuki
Builder: Sasebo Naval Arsenal
Laid down: 1 May 1944
Launched: 2 December 1944
Completed: 8 April 1945
Commissioned: 8 April 1945, 11th Destroyer Squadron
Struck: 5 October 1945
Fate: Transferred to the United Kingdom, 25 August 1947
Career (UK)
Acquired: 25 August 1947
Fate: Scrapped, 1948
General characteristics
Class and type: Akizuki-class destroyer
Displacement: 2,700 long tons (2,743 t) standard
3,700 long tons (3,759 t) full load
Length: 134.2 m (440 ft 3 in)
Beam: 11.6 m (38 ft 1 in)
Draft: 4.15 m (13 ft 7 in)
Propulsion: 4 × Kampon type boilers
2 × Parsons geared turbines
2 × shafts, 50,000 shp (37 MW)
Speed: 33 knots (38 mph; 61 km/h)
Range: 8,300 nmi (15,400 km) at 18 kn (21 mph; 33 km/h)
Complement: 263
Armament: • 8 × 100 mm (4 in)/65 cal DP guns
• Unknown × 25 mm AA guns (3×7 + 1×up to 40)
• 4 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes
• 8 × Type 93 torpedoes
• 54 × Type 95 depth charges

Natsuzuki (夏月?, "Summer Moon") was an Akizuki-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

On 5 October 1945, Natsuzuki was removed from the Navy List.

On 25 August 1947, she was turned over to Great Britain. She was scrapped at Uraga, Kanagawa in 1948.

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