Japanese destroyer Asanagi

Asanagi at anchor 29 December 1924
History
Empire of Japan
Name	Asanagi
Builder	Fujinagata Shipyards
Laid down	5 March 1923 as Destroyer No. 15
Launched	21 April 1924
Completed	29 December 1924
Renamed	Asanagi, 1 August 1928
Stricken	10 July 1944
Fate	Sunk on 22 May 1944
General characteristics
Class and type	Kamikaze-class destroyer
Displacement	1,422 t (1,400 long tons) (normal) 1,747 t (1,719 long tons) (deep load)
Length	97.5 m (319 ft 11 in) (pp) 102.5 m (336 ft 3 in) (o/a)
Beam	9.1 m (29 ft 10 in)
Draft	2.9 m (9 ft 6 in)
Installed power	38,500 shp (28,700 kW) 4 × Kampon water-tube boilers
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 × Kampon geared steam turbines
Speed	37.3 knots (69.1 km/h; 42.9 mph)
Range	3,600 nmi (6,700 km; 4,100 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Complement	148
Armament	4 × single 12 cm (4.7 in) Type 3 guns 3 × twin 53.3 cm (21.0 in) torpedo tubes
Service record
Operations:	Battle of Wake Island New Guinea Campaign Solomon Islands Campaign

The Japanese destroyer Asanagi (朝凪, "Morning Calm") was one of nine Kamikaze-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the 1920s. During the Pacific War, she participated in the occupation of the Gilbert Islands and the Battle of Wake Island in December 1941 and then the occupations of New Guinea and the Solomon Islands in early 1942.