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Harutsuki

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ClassAkizuki class
TypeDestroyer (DD)
BuilderSasebo Naval Arsenal
Launched1944-08-03
Commissioned1944-12-28
FateAfloat. Surrendered. Turned over to the Soviet Union on 28 August 1947 and renamed Vnezapny. She served as the training ship Oskol from 1949, the target ship TsL-64 from 1955 and the barracks PKZ-37, and was scrapped in 1969.
Armament (class)Anti-aircraft destroyer. Four twin mounts and one funnel.

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.

Harutsuki
Harutsuki, December 1944. The photograph is from a Russian archive of Russian and Soviet naval ship photographs. Source credit on Commons: Archive of photographs of Russian and Soviet navy ships. Wikimedia Commons File:Harutuki.jpg. Public domain.

The name means spring moon. Harutsuki was an Akizuki-class destroyer, but she was built differently from her sisters, as a flagship for the Escort Fleet. Sasebo Naval Arsenal laid her down on 23 December 1943, launched her on 3 August 1944 and completed her on 28 December 1944.

She was completed too late for the carrier war and was struck from the Navy List on 5 October 1945. On 28 August 1947 she was turned over to the Soviet Union as war reparation and renamed Vnezapny. The Soviet Navy rearmed her with eight 102-millimetre guns, fifteen 25 mm guns and four 533-millimetre torpedo tubes. She became the training ship Oskol in 1949 and the target ship TsL-64 in 1955. She ended as the floating barracks PKZ-37 and was scrapped in 1969.

Sources: Wikipedia, Japanese destroyer Harutsuki, rewritten here.

The pictures on this page are the originals.