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Asakaze

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ClassKamikaze class
TypeDestroyer (DD)
BuilderMitsubishi, Nagasaki
Launched1922-12-08
Commissioned1923-06-16
FateSunk. Second Kamikaze class. Completed in 1923 as Destroyer No. 3 and named Asakaze in 1928. The submarine Haddo sank her on 23 August 1944, west of Lingayen Gulf. Struck 10 October 1944.
Armament (class)Follow-on to the Minekaze class. Four single guns and two funnels.
Command

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.

Asakaze
Imperial Japanese Navy. Asakaze around 1924, when she was still Destroyer No. 3. The number 3 is on the bow. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Asakaze was a destroyer of the second Kamikaze class, built for the Imperial Japanese Navy by Mitsubishi at Nagasaki. She was launched on 8 December 1922 and commissioned on 16 June 1923.

She entered service as Destroyer No. 3. In 1928 the Navy gave her the name Asakaze, the name she carried for the rest of her career.

Captain Zenji Ichimon commanded her from 1 December 1936 to 1 December 1937. That year covered the opening of the war in China.

On 1 March 1942 she fought in the Battle of Sunda Strait with Destroyer Division 5. During the action she launched six torpedoes and was still afloat when the night ended.

The submarine Haddo sank her on 23 August 1944, west of Lingayen Gulf. Her name was struck from the Navy list on 10 October 1944.

The pictures on this page are the originals.