Ariake underway on 25 March 1935.
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Empire of Japan | |
Name: | Ariake |
Ordered: | FY 1933 |
Builder: | Kawasaki Shipyards, Japan |
Laid down: | 14 January 1933 |
Launched: | 23 September 1934 |
Commissioned: | 25 March 1935 |
Struck: | 15 October 1943 |
Fate: | Sunk in action, 28 July 1943 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Hatsuharu-class destroyer |
Displacement: | 1,530 t (1,510 long tons) |
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Beam: | 10 m (32 ft 10 in) |
Draught: | 3.38 m (11 ft 1 in) |
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Speed: | 36 knots (41 mph; 67 km/h) |
Range: | 4,000 nmi (7,400 km) at 14 kn (26 km/h) |
Complement: | 212 |
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Ariake (有明 ”Daybreak”?) was the fifth of six Hatsuharu-class destroyers, built for the Imperial Japanese Navy under the Circle One Program (Maru Ichi Keikaku). Three were laid down in JFY 1931 and the next three in JFY 1933.
Construction of the advanced Hatsuharu-class destroyers was intended to give the Imperial Japanese Navy smaller and more economical destroyers than the previous Fubuki and Akatsuki-class destroyers, but with essentially the same weaponry. These conflicting goals proved beyond contemporary destroyer design, and the initial ships of this class were top-heavy design, with severe stability problems and with inherent structural weaknesses. After the "Tomozuru Incident" of 1934 and "IJN 4th Fleet Incident" in 1935, Ariake underwent extensive design changes and modifications prior to launch to remedy these issues.
Ariake was laid down at Kawasaki Shipyards in Kobe on 14 January 1933, launched on 23 September 1934 and commissioned on 25 March 1935.
At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Ariake was assigned to Destroyer Division 27 of Destroyer Squadron 1 of the IJN 1st Fleet together with her sister ships Shiratsuyu, Shigure, and Yūgure, and was based at Hashirajima in Japanese home waters on anti-submarine patrol.