Japanese destroyer Fuyutsuki

Fuyuzuki
History
Name	Fuyuzuki
Laid down	8 May 1943
Launched	20 January 1944
Commissioned	30 April 1944
Reclassified	As transport on 25 February 1946
Stricken	20 November 1945
Fate	Scrapped in 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	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

Fuyuzuki (冬月) was an Akizuki-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her name means "Winter Moon".

On 12 October 1944, 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 battleship 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, Fuyuzuki hit a mine at Moji, Kyūshū, suffering heavy damage to her stern. She surrendered unrepaired and without armament.

See also

• List of World War II ships

External links

• CombinedFleet.com: Akizuki-class destroyers
• CombinedFleet.com: Fuyuzuki history