was a of the
Imperial Japanese Navy.
Design and description
The ''Yūgumo'' class was a repeat of the preceding with minor improvements that increased their anti-aircraft capabilities. Their crew numbered 228 officers and enlisted men. The ships measured
overall, with a
beam
Beam may refer to:
Streams of particles or energy
*Light beam, or beam of light, a directional projection of light energy
**Laser beam
*Particle beam, a stream of charged or neutral particles
**Charged particle beam, a spatially localized grou ...
of and a
draft of . They displaced at
standard load and at deep load.
[Whitley, p. 203] The ships had two
Kampon geared
steam turbine
A steam turbine is a machine that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam and uses it to do mechanical work on a rotating output shaft. Its modern manifestation was invented by Charles Parsons in 1884. Fabrication of a modern steam turbin ...
s, each driving one
propeller shaft, using steam provided by three Kampon
water-tube boilers. The turbines were rated at a total of for a designed speed of .
The main armament of the ''Yūgumo'' class consisted of six
Type 3 guns in three twin-
gun turrets, one
superfiring
Superfiring armament is a naval military building technique in which two (or more) turrets are located in a line, one behind the other, with the second turret located above ("super") the one in front so that the second turret can fire over the ...
pair aft and one turret forward of the
superstructure
A superstructure is an upward extension of an existing structure above a baseline. This term is applied to various kinds of physical structures such as buildings, bridges, or ships.
Aboard ships and large boats
On water craft, the superstruct ...
.
[ The guns were able to elevate up to 75° to increase their ability against aircraft, but their slow rate of fire, slow traversing speed, and the lack of any sort of high-angle ]fire-control system
A fire-control system (FCS) is a number of components working together, usually a gun data computer, a director, and radar, which is designed to assist a ranged weapon system to target, track, and hit a target. It performs the same task as a ...
meant that they were virtually useless as anti-aircraft gun
Anti-aircraft warfare, counter-air or air defence forces is the battlespace response to aerial warfare, defined by NATO as "all measures designed to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air action".AAP-6 It includes surface based, ...
s.[Campbell, p. 192] They were built with four Type 96 anti-aircraft guns in two twin-gun mounts, but more of these guns were added over the course of the war. The ships were also armed with eight torpedo tubes in a two quadruple traversing mounts; one reload was carried for each tube. Their anti-submarine weapons comprised two depth charge
A depth charge is an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) weapon. It is intended to destroy a submarine by being dropped into the water nearby and detonating, subjecting the target to a powerful and destructive Shock factor, hydraulic shock. Most depth ...
throwers for which 36 depth charges were carried.[
]
Construction and career
From 15–20 October 1943, ''Hayanami'' was used on troop transport runs from Saeki to Truk. The destroyer was used on troop transport runs from Truk to Ponape
Ponape may refer to:
* Pohnpei, an island in the Federated States of Micronesia
* ''Ponape'' (barque), a German sailing ship
{{disambiguation ...
on 22-24 and 26–28 October. She provided escort for a troop transport run on 6 November to Bougainville.
On 7 June 1944, ''Hayanami'' was torpedoed and sunk by the submarine near Tawitawi
Tawi-Tawi, officially the Province of Tawi-Tawi ( tl, Lalawigan ng Tawi-Tawi; Tausug: ''Wilaya' sin Tawi-Tawi''; Sinama: ''Jawi Jawi/Jauih Jauih''), is an island province in the Philippines located in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim M ...
, east of Borneo (). The ship blew up and sank with 208 killed; 45 survivors were rescued by the destroyer .
On 10 August 1944, ''Hayanami'' was removed from the Navy List.
Notes
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External links
CombinedFleet.com: ''Yūgumo''-class destroyers
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Yūgumo-class destroyers
World War II destroyers of Japan
Ships sunk by American submarines
Shipwrecks in the Celebes Sea
1942 ships
Maritime incidents in June 1944
Ships built by Maizuru Naval Arsenal