Japanese destroyer Ayanami (1909)
For other ships of the same name, see Ayanami.
 A classmate of the Kamikaze class, Ayanami | |
| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | Ayanami |
| Builder: | Maizuru Naval Arsenal |
| Laid down: | May 15, 1908 |
| Launched: | March 20, 1909 |
| Completed: | June 6, 1909 |
| Renamed: | "W-9" on August 1, 1928 |
| Reclassified: | minesweeper on December 1, 1924 |
| Reclassified: | tugboat on June 1, 1930 |
| Fate: | scrapped April 19, 1933 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Kamikaze class |
| Displacement: | 381 long tons (387 t) normal, 450 long tons (460 t) |
| Length: | 69.2 m (227 ft) pp, 72 m (236 ft) |
| Beam: | 6.57 m (21.6 ft) |
| Draught: | 1.8 m (5.9 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 2-shaft reciprocating, 4 coal-fired boilers, 6,000 ihp (4,500 kW) |
| Speed: | 29 knots (54 km/h) |
| Range: | 850 nmi (1,570 km) @ 11 kn (20 km/h) |
| Complement: | 70 |
| Armament: |
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Ayanami (綾波) ("cross wave") was a Kamikaze-class destroyer in the Imperial Japanese Navy. The last of the Kamikaze-class vessels to be built, she was laid down at Maizuru Naval Arsenal on May 15, 1908, and launched March 20 the next year. Ayanami was nearly obsolete as soon as she was commissioned. On December 1, 1924 she was converted into a minesweeper. She was renamed W-9 on August 1, 1928 to free her name for her World War II counterpart, the Fubuki-class Ayanami (1929). On June 1, 1930 she was converted again, this time to a tugboat, and was finally scrapped on April 19, 1933.
References
Books
- Evans, David (1979). Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887–1941. US Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-192-7.
- Howarth, Stephen (1983). The Fighting Ships of the Rising Sun: The Drama of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1895–1945. Atheneum. ISBN 0-689-11402-8.
- Lyon, David (2006). The First Destroyers. Mercury Books. ISBN 1-84560-010-X.
- Jentsura, Hansgeorg (1976). Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869–1945. US Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-893-X.
External links
- Nishida, Hiroshi. "Materials of IJN: Asakaze class destroyer". Imperial Japanese Navy.
- Smith, Gordon. "Imperial Japanese Navy". World War I at Sea.
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