Japanese destroyer Fuyutsuki
 Fuyutsuki
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| Name | Fuyutsuki |
| 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 | list error: <br /> list (help) 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 | list error: <br /> list (help) 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 | list error: <br /> list (help) • 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[1] (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, Fuyutsuki hit a mine at Moji, Kyūshū, suffering heavy damage to her stern. She surrendered unrepaired and without armament.
See also
References
- ^ 1 November 1943, Notice No. 235, Named one destroyer, three submarines, one coast defence ship, two minesweeper, and one submarine chaser., Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of the Navy.
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