Japanese destroyer Hatsukaze

History
Empire of Japan
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)
Propulsion	3 × Kampon water tube boilers; 2 × Kanpon impulse turbines; 2 × shafts, 52,000 shp (39 MW);
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
Armament	(1939); 6 × 12.7 cm/50 Type 3 DP guns; 2 × Type 96 25 mm AA guns; 8 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes; 18 depth charges; 2 × paravanes; (1943); 6 × 12.7 cm/50 Type 3 DP guns; 8 × Type 96 25 mm AA guns; 8 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes; 18 depth charges;
Service record
Part of:	Destroyer Division 16, Squadron 2 (1941-42); Destroyer Division 16, Squadron 10 (1942-43);
Operations:	Invasion of Philippines (1941); Invasion of Timor and eastern Java (1941); Battle of the Java Sea (1942); Christmas Island invasion (1942); Battle of the Eastern Solomons (1942); Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands (1942); Battle of Empress Augusta Bay (1943);
Victories:	PT-43 & PT-112 (1943)

Hatsukaze (初風, lit. “First Wind”) 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, but was finally sunk in November 1943 after being damaged through collision with Japanese cruiser Myōkō.

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