Japanese destroyer Hatsushimo (1933)
Hatsushimo in 1937
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 Empire of Japan
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| Name: | Hatsushimo |
| Ordered: | 1931 Fiscal Year |
| Builder: | Uraga Dock Company |
| Laid down: | 31 January 1933 |
| Launched: | 4 November 1933 |
| Commissioned: | 27 September 1934 |
| Struck: | 30 September 1945 |
| Fate: | Mined and run aground, 30 July 1945. Broken up 1948-1949 |
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| Class and type: | Hatsuharu-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,802 long tons (1,831 t) |
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| Beam: | 10 m (32 ft 10 in) |
| Draught: | 3 m (9 ft 10 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: | 200 |
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Hatsushimo (初霜 ”First Frost”?) was the fourth 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. The remaining six ships in the plan were built as the Shiratsuyu class.
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 resulting ships 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, Wakaba underwent extensive modifications on completion to remedy these issues.
The Hatsuharu-class destroyers used the same 50 caliber 12.7 cm gun as the Fubuki class, but all turrets could elevate to 75° to give the main guns a minimal ability to engage aircraft. During the war the single turret was removed on all surviving ships after 1942. The only anti-aircraft guns were two water-cooled, license-built Vickers 40 mm (1.6 in) (pom pom). These guns were deemed to be too heavy, slow-firing and short-ranged and were replaced by license-built French Hotchkiss 25 mm (0.98 in) Type 96 anti-aircraft guns in single, double and triple mounts from 1943 for the surviving ships. These powered mounts were still unsatisfactory because their traverse and elevation speeds were too slow to engage high-speed aircraft and more single mounts were fitted to ships in the last year of the war.
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