Japanese destroyer Asakaze (1922)

	Asakaze
History
Empire of Japan
Name	Asakaze
Builder	Mitsubishi, Nagasaki
Laid down	16 February 1922 as Destroyer No. 3
Launched	8 December 1922
Completed	16 June 1923
Renamed	Asakaze, 1 August 1928
Stricken	10 October 1944
Fate	Sunk by USS Haddo, 23 August 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 the Philippines; Battle of Sunda Strait;

The Japanese destroyer Asakaze (朝風, ”Morning Wind”) 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 Philippines Campaign in December 1941 and the Dutch East Indies Campaign in early 1942. She took part in the Battle of Sunda Strait in March and helped to sink two Allied cruisers. She was sunk by the USS Haddo in August 1944.

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