Japanese destroyer Satsuki (1925)

History
Japanese destroyer Satsuki
Empire of Japan
Name:	Satsuki
Namesake:	Japanese destroyer Satsuki (1905)
Builder:	Fujinagata Shipyards, Japan
Yard number:	Destroyer No. 27
Laid down:	1 December 1924
Launched:	25 March 1925
Commissioned:	15 November 1925
Renamed:	as Satsuki 1 August 1928
Struck:	10 November 1944
Fate:	sunk in air attack 21 September 1944
General characteristics
Class and type:	Mutsuki-class destroyer
Displacement:	1,315 long tons (1,336 t) normal, 1,445 long tons (1,468 t) full load
Length:	97.54 m (320.0 ft) pp, 102.72 m (337.0 ft) overall
Beam:	9.16 m (30.1 ft)
Draught:	2.96 m (9.7 ft)
Propulsion:	4 × Ro-Gō Kampon water-tube boilers 2 × Kampon geared turbines 38,500 ihp (28,700 kW); 2 shafts
Speed:	37.25 knots (68.99 km/h)
Range:	3,600 nautical miles (6,700 km) at 14 knots (26 km/h)
Complement:	154
Armament:	4 ×Type 3 120 mm 45 caliber naval gun, 2 × Type 92 7.7 mm machine gun, 2 × triple Type 12 torpedo tubes (12 × 610 mm Type 8 torpedoes), 18 × depth charges 16 × Ichi-Gō naval mines
Service record
Part of:	Destroyer Division 30
Operations:	Battle of the Philippines Solomon Islands campaign New Guinea campaign

Satsuki (皐月, ”May”^?) was one of twelve Mutsuki-class destroyers, built for the Imperial Japanese Navy following World War I. Advanced for their time, these ships served as first-line destroyers through the 1930s, but were considered obsolescent by the start of the Pacific War.

Construction of the Mutsuki-class destroyers was authorized as part of the Imperial Japanese Navy's build up following the abandonment of the Washington Naval Treaty from fiscal 1923. The class was a follow-on to the earlier Minekaze and Kamikaze-class destroyers, with which they shared many common design characteristics.Satsuki, built at the Fujinagata Shipyards in Osaka, was laid down on 1 December 1924, launched on 25 March 1925 and commissioned on 15 November 1925. Originally commissioned simply as Destroyer No. 27, it was assigned the name Satsuki on 1 August 1928.

At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Satsuki was part of Desron 22 under Destroyer Division 5 in the IJN 3rd Fleet, and deployed from Mako Guard District in the Pescadores as part of the Japanese invasion force for "Operation M" (the invasion of the Philippines), during which time it helped screen landings of Japanese forces at Lingayen Gulf and at Aparri.

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