| Japanese destroyer Fuyutsuki | |
|---|---|
 Fuyutsuki | |
| Career |  |
| Name: | Fuyutsuki |
| Ordered: | 1942 |
| Cost: | 17,820,400 JPY (as naval budget)[1] |
| Laid down: | 8 May 1943 |
| Launched: | 20 January 1944 |
| Completed: | 25 May 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 25 May 1944 |
| Reclassified: |
4th Class Reserve Ship on September 1945 As repair ship/minesweper tender on 20 November 1945 |
| Struck: | 20 November 1945 |
| Homeport: | Yokosuka |
| Fate: | Scrapped and converted breakwater in May 1948 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & 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: | 300 |
| Armament: |
• 8 × 100 mm (4 in)/65 cal DP guns • up to 51 × 25 mm AA guns • 4 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes for Type 93 torpedoes • 72 × depth charges |
Fuyutsuki[2] (冬月) was an Akizuki-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her name means "Winter Moon".
On 25 May 1944, completed at Maizuru Naval Arsenal, and she assigned 11th Destroyer Squadron, Combined Fleet.[3]
On 24 June, she sailed Yokosuka with Landing ship No. 4 and Landing ship No. 104.[4] On 25 June, she entry to the I-Gō Transport Squadron,[5] on 29 June, she sailed Chichi-jima with cruiser Nagara and destroyer Matsu. They were retruened to Yokosuka on 3 July.[6]
On 11 July, she sailed Tokuyama with destroyer Kiyoshimo, on 14 July, she entry to the Ro-Gō Transport Squadron,[7] and sailed Nakagusuku Bay. On 15 July, she assigned 41st Destroyer Division, 10th Division, 3rd Fleet with destroyer Shimotsuki.[8] Fuyutsuki returned to Kure on 26 July.[6]
On 12 October, while escorting the light cruiser Ōyodo from Yokosuka to the Inland Sea, she was hit on the bow by a torpedo fired from USS Trepang (SS-412). She returned to Kure where she was repaired.
On 31 January 1945 she ran aground on a sandbar near Ōita during a training mission in the Inland Sea.
She participated on the last mission of the Japanese battleship Yamato (6–7 April 1945). She sank the crippled destroyer Kasumi with two torpedoes after taking aboard her crew. She was one of the few surviving ships, even though lightly damaged by 127 mm rockets and bombs. Her own losses were 12 dead and 12 injured.
On 20 August 1945, Fuyutsuki hit a mine at Moji, Kyūshū, suffering heavy damage to her stern. She surrendered unrepaired and without armament.
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References[]
- ↑ Senshi Sōsho (1969), p. 815.
- ↑ 1 October 1943, Notice No. 235, Named one destroyer, two submarines, one coast defence ship, two minesweepers, and one submarine chaser., Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of the Navy.
- ↑ The Maru Special (1978), p. 35.
- ↑ JACAR, reference code: C08030127400, p. 20.
- ↑ JACAR, reference code: C08030127400, p. 21.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 JACAR, reference code: C08030127500, p. 5.
- ↑ JACAR, reference code: C08030127500, p. 32.
- ↑ JACAR, reference code: C08030127500, p. 31.
- Ushio Shobō (Ushioshobokojinsha Co., Ltd.), Tōkyō, Japan.
- The Maru Special, Imperial Japanese Vessels No. 19, Destroyer Asashio-class and Akizuki-class, 1978.
- Senshi Sōsho, Asagumo Shimbunsha Inc., Tōkyō, Japan.
- Vol. 31, Naval armaments and war preparation (1), "Until November 1941", 1969.
- Japan Center for Asian Historical Records (JACAR, http://www.jacar.go.jp/english/index.html), National Archives of Japan, Tokyo, Japan.
- Reference code: C08030127400, Wartime log book from June 1, 1944 to June 30, 1945, 11th Torpedo Squadron (1), HQ of 11th Destroyer Squadron/Imperial Japanese Navy, 1944.
- Reference code: C08030127500, Wartime log book from June 1, 1944 to June 30, 1945, 11th Torpedo Squadron (2), HQ of 11th Destroyer Squadron/Imperial Japanese Navy, 1944.
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