Japanese destroyer Ayanami (1909)

For other ships of the same name, see Ayanami.

History
A classmate of the Kamikaze class, Ayanami
Empire of Japan
Name:	Ayanami
Builder:	Maizuru Naval Arsenal
Laid down:	15 May 1908
Launched:	20 March 1909
Completed:	6 June 1909
Renamed:	W-9 on 1 August 1928
Reclassified:	minesweeper on 1 December 1924
Reclassified:	tugboat on 1 June 1930
Fate:	scrapped 19 April 1933
General characteristics
Class & type:	Kamikaze-class destroyer
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) at 11 kn (20 km/h)
Complement:	70
Armament:	2 × QF 12 pounder 12 cwt naval guns 4 × 80 mm/28 cal guns 2 × 450 mm torpedoes

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 15 May 1908, and launched 20 March the next year. Ayanami was nearly obsolete as soon as she was commissioned. On 1 December 1924 she was converted into a minesweeper. She was renamed W-9 on 1 August 1928 to free her name for her World War II counterpart, the Fubuki-class Ayanami. On 1 June 1930 she was converted again, this time to a tugboat, and was finally scrapped on 19 April 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.

Kamikaze-class destroyers

Kamikaze Hatsushimo Yayoi Kisaragi Asakaze Shiratsuyu Shirayuki Matsukaze Harukaze Shigure Asatsuyu Hayate Oite Yūnagi Yūgure Yūdachi Mikazuki Nowaki Ushio Nenohi Hibiki Shirotae Hatsuharu Wakaba Hatsuyuki Uzuki Minatsuki / W-10 Nagatsuki / W-11 Kikutsuki / W-12 Uranami / W-8 Isonami / W-7 Ayanami / W-9

Preceded by: Harusame class Followed by: Umikaze class

List of destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Monday, December 28, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.