Hayashio was a Kagero-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The Uraga Dock Company built her. She was launched on 19 April 1939 and commissioned on 31 August 1940.
Kiyoshi Kaneda became her captain on 1 September 1941 and was still in command on her last day at sea.
She was lost in the New Guinea Campaign. On 24 November 1942, bound for Lae on a transport passage, she was hit by bombers of the United States Army Air Forces in Guna Bay. A B-17F, airframe 41-24521, was credited with a blow on the port side of the forward turret. Fire took hold. The fight to quench it ended when a magazine exploded, and Captain Kaneda ordered the crew off the ship.
Once the survivors had been taken clear, the destroyer Shiratsuyu put a torpedo into Hayashio and she was scuttled in Guna Bay on the Huon Gulf, near 7 degrees south and 147 degrees 30 minutes east. The navy removed her from its list on 24 December 1942.