Japanese destroyer Hagi (1920)

	Sister ship Kuri at anchor, 1937
History
Empire of Japan
Name	Hagi
Builder	Uraga Dock Company, Uraga, Japan
Laid down	28 February 1920
Launched	29 October 1920
Completed	20 April 1921
Stricken	15 January 1942
Fate	Set on fire by American artillery, 23 December 1941
General characteristics (as built)
Type	Momi-class destroyer
Displacement	850 long tons (864 t) (normal); 1,020 long tons (1,036 t) (deep load);
Length	275 ft (83.8 m) (pp); 280 ft (85.3 m) (o/a);
Beam	26 ft (7.9 m)
Draft	8 ft (2.4 m)
Installed power	3 × Kampon water-tube boilers; 21,500 shp (16,000 kW);
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 × geared steam turbines
Speed	36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range	3,000 nmi (5,600 km; 3,500 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	110
Armament	3 × single 12 cm (4.7 in) guns; 2 × twin 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes;

The Japanese destroyer Hagi (萩) was one of 21 Momi-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the late 1910s. She was converted into a patrol boat in 1940 and was lost during the Battle of Wake Island shortly after the beginning of the Pacific War in December 1941.

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