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Hayate

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ClassKamikaze class
TypeDestroyer (DD)
BuilderIshikawajima
Launched1925-03-23
Commissioned1925-12-21
FateSunk. by Marine 5-inch gunfire two miles southwest of Wake Island, 11 December 1941. She broke in two and went down in about two minutes. Lieutenant Commander Minoru Takatsuka and 167 men were lost. One man was saved. The first Japanese surface warship sunk in the Pacific War.
Armament (class)Follow-on to the Minekaze class. Four single guns and two funnels.
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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.

Hayate
Imperial Japanese Navy. Hayate on trials in 1925, still Destroyer No. 13. The number 13 is on the bow. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Hayate was a Kamikaze-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Ishikawajima built her. She was launched on 23 March 1925 and commissioned on 21 December 1925.

On 11 December 1941 she was in the Battle of Wake Island. She closed the atoll with the destroyer Oite to bombard Wilkes.

Marine 5-inch guns met her offshore. Battery L, under Second Lieutenant John A. McAlister, hit Hayate about two miles southwest of Wake Island. The ship broke in two. She went down in about two minutes.

Lieutenant Commander Minoru Takatsuka was in command. He and 167 men were lost, and one man was saved. Hayate was the first Japanese surface warship sunk in the Pacific War.

The pictures on this page are the originals.