 Graphic representation of Hatsukaze upon completion.
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| History | |
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| Name | Hatsukaze |
| Builder | Kawasaki Shipyards |
| Laid down | 3 December 1937 |
| Launched | 24 January 1939 |
| Completed | 15 February 1940 |
| Stricken | 2 November 1943 |
| Fate | Sunk in action, 2 November 1943 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Kagerō-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 2,033 long tons (2,066 t) standard |
| Length | 118.5 m (388 ft 9 in) |
| Beam | 10.8 m (35 ft 5 in) |
| Draft | 3.8 m (12 ft 6 in) |
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| Speed | 35.5 knots (40.9 mph; 65.7 km/h) |
| Range | 5,000 NM at 18 knots (21 mph; 33 km/h) |
| Complement | 239 |
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| Victories: | PT-43 & PT-112 (1943) |
Hatsukaze (初風, lit. “First Wind”) [1] was the seventh vessel to be commissioned in the 19-vessel Kagerō-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the late-1930s under the Circle Three Supplementary Naval Expansion Program (Maru San Keikaku). She survived four major fleet actions against the Allies, helping to sink the submarine USS Perch and the torpedo boats PT-43 and PT-112 throughout her career but, after being damaged through a collision with the Japanese heavy cruiser Myōkō. she was sunk by an American destroyer flotilla led by Captain Arleigh Burke aboard USS Charles Ausburne at the battle of the Empress August Bay, November 2 1943.
- ^ Nelson. Japanese-English Character Dictionary. Page 803, 960;