Japanese destroyer Wakaba (1934)

Wakaba on 21 October 1937.
History
Empire of Japan
Name	Wakaba
Ordered	1931 Fiscal Year
Builder	Sasebo Naval Arsenal
Laid down	12 December 1931
Launched	18 March 1934
Commissioned	31 October 1934
Stricken	10 December 1944
Fate	Sunk in action, 24 October 1944
General characteristics
Class and type	Hatsuharu-class destroyer
Displacement	1,802 long tons (1,831 t)
Length	103.5 m (340 ft) pp, 105.5 m (346 ft) waterline 109.5 m (359 ft) overall
Beam	10 m (32 ft 10 in)
Draught	3 m (9 ft 10 in)
Propulsion	2 shaft Kampon geared turbines 3 boilers, 42,000 hp (31,000 kW)
Speed	36 knots (41 mph; 67 km/h)
Range	4,000 nmi (7,400 km) at 14 kn (26 km/h)
Complement	200
Armament	(as built) 2 × 2, 1 × 1 - 12.7 cm/50 Type 3 naval gun 2 × 1 - 40 mm AA guns 3 × 3 - 61 cm (24 in) torpedo tubes 18 × depth charges
Service record
Operations:	Second Sino-Japanese War Invasion of French Indochina Aleutians campaign Battle of Leyte Gulf

Wakaba (若葉, ”Young Leaves”) ^[1] was the third of six Hatsuharu-class destroyers, built for the Imperial Japanese Navy under the Circle One Program (Maru Ichi Keikaku). Three were laid down in JFY 1931 and the next three in JFY 1933. The remaining six ships in the plan were built as the Shiratsuyu class.^[2]