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Kisaragi

IJN Kisaragi

Sunk

Imperial Japanese Navy

TypeDestroyer
ClassMutsuki
WarSecond World War
Main guns4 × 12 cm (4.7 in) Type 3 guns

Sunk at Wake Island by a bomb from one of the four Marine Wildcat fighters, which set off her depth charges.

Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Kisaragi, the second Japanese warship to bear that name. Photo: Shizuo Fukui, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

  • 4 × 12 cm (4.7 in) Type 3 guns
  • 2 × triple 61 cm (24 in) torpedo tubes
  • 18 × depth charges
  • 16 × mines
BuilderMaizuru Naval Arsenal
Laid down3 June 1924 as Destroyer No. 21
Launched5 June 1925
Displacement1,336 t (1,315 long tons) (normal) 1,800 t (1,772 long tons) (deep load)
Length97.54 m (320 ft 0 in) (pp) 102.4 m (335 ft 11 in) (o/a)
Speed37.25 knots (68.99 km/h; 42.87 mph)
Complement150

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched

5 June 1925

Battle of Wake Island
Sunk

11 December 1941

Sunk by a Wildcat's bomb