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The Japanese destroyer was one of nine destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). During the Pacific War, she was sunk by American coast-defense guns during the Battle of Wake Island in December 1941, the first Japanese warship to be lost during the war. Only a single man of her crew was rescued. ==Design and description== The ''Kamikaze'' class was an improved version of the s. The ships had an overall length of 〔Watts & Gordon, pp. 263–64〕 and were between perpendiculars. They had a beam of , and a mean draft of . The ''Kamikaze''-class ships displaced at standard load and at deep load.〔Whitley, p. 189〕 They were powered by two Parsons geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft, using steam provided by four Kampon water-tube boilers. The turbines were designed to produce , which would propel the ships at . During sea trials, the ships comfortably exceeded their designed speeds, reaching .〔Gardiner & Gray, p. 245〕 The ships carried of fuel oil which gave them a range of at . Their crew consisted of 148 officers and crewmen.〔Jentschura, Jung & Mickel, p. 142〕 The main armament of the ''Kamikaze''-class ships consisted of four in single mounts; one gun forward of the superstructure, one between the two funnels and the last pair back to back atop the aft superstructure. The guns were numbered '1' to '4' from front to rear. The ships carried three above-water twin sets of torpedo tubes; one mount was between the forward superstructure and the forward gun and the other two were between the aft funnel and aft superstructure.〔 Early in the war, the No. 4 gun and the aft torpedo tubes were removed in exchange for four depth charge throwers and 18 depth charges.〔Whitley, pp. 189–90〕 ==Construction and career== ''Hayate'', built at the Ishikawajima Shipyards in Tokyo, was laid down on 11 November 1922, launched on 24 March 1925 and completed on 21 December 1925. Originally commissioned simply as ''Destroyer No. 13'', the ship was assigned the name ''Hayate'' on 1 August 1928.〔Watts & Gordon, p. 264〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Japanese destroyer Hayate (1925)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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