IJN · DD
Amatsukaze
Photos and infoKagero-class destroyer. Tameichi Hara was her captain. On the night of 1 March 1942, with Hatsukaze, she depth-charged the submarine Perch in the Java Sea and left her crippled. She did not sink her. Perch was scuttled two mornings later. On the night of 3 March Hara saw a man light a cigarette on a surfaced submarine, about 4,000 meters off. Amatsukaze closed. The submarine fired two torpedoes, which missed, and gunfire hit her. Hara believed she went down. That boat was not Perch. No Allied submarine is known to have been lost that night. The submarine has not been identified. On 13 November 1942 Helena's 6-inch guns hit Amatsukaze off Guadalcanal and disabled her guns. The steering was out. Hara steered her by hand for hundreds of miles, and she made Truk. She was not sunk that night.
| Class | Kagero class |
|---|---|
| Type | Destroyer (DD) |
| Builder | Maizuru Naval Arsenal |
| Launched | 1939-10-19 |
| Commissioned | 1940-10-26 |
| Fate | Sunk. Torpedoed by USS Redfin in January 1944, north of the Spratly Islands. The bow was blown off. She stayed afloat, was given a temporary bow, and was wrecked by Army bombers south of Amoy on 6 April 1945. |
| Armament (class) | Three twin 5-inch mounts, two funnels, and two quadruple banks of tubes. |
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Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.
The armament line is the class drawing, not a measurement of this hull.
米国陸軍航空隊, United States Army Air Forces. Japanese destroyer Amatsukaze 1945.jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Command
Battle of the Java Sea
1942-02-27 · Destroyer Division 16, with Jintsu. A near miss is said to have damaged her hull. Not sunk
The loss of Perch
1942-03-03 · depth-charged Perch on 1 March; Hara was her captain
Battle of the Eastern Solomons
1942-08-24 · with Ryujo; took off survivors; not sunk
Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands
1942-10-26 · in Nagumo's screen. Not sunk
Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, night action
1942-11-13 · guns out and steering out; Hara steered her by hand
