Akatsuki (暁, "Dawn") [1] was the twenty-first Fubuki -class destroyer, or the lead ship of the Akatsuki class (if that sub-class is regarded as a separate class), built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the inter-war period.

The Akatsuki-class destroyer (暁型駆逐艦, Akatsuki-gata kuchikukan) was a class of four destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy. [1]

Jan 24, 2025 · The Akatsuki-class destroyers (Akatsukigata kuchikukan) were four destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) built between 1926 and 1933. They were dubbed the Group III of the Fubuki class (24, comprising themselves) which for some authors were described as the world’s first modern destroyer.

Akatsuki is the Tier VII entry in the IJN "torpedo boat" tech tree branch. While she can salvo one more torpedo than her "gunboat" counter-part Shiratsuyu, ironically she cannot equip the latter's Torpedo Reload Booster.

Japanese destroyer Akatsuki (1901), lead ship of the Akatsuki-class destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy commissioned in 1903 and sunk in May 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War

Laid down February 17, 1930 as the lead ship of Akatsuki-class destroyer then designated Destroyer No. 55. Launched May 7, 1932 as Akatsuki 暁 meaning "dawn" in Japanese. Commissioned November 30, 1932 into the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) under the command of Lieutenant Commander Kyuji Aoki.

Aug 28, 2014 · During the Dr. Robert Ballard and National Geographic expedition to Savo a search was made for AKATSUKI. Apart from YUDACHI a second Japanese destroyer wreck was indeed located, but is almost certainly AYANAMI.

Dec 21, 2018 · IJN Kashii, of the 1916 Momo class, which was transferred in 1937 by the IJN to the puppet regime of the Manchukuo became its flagship, as Hai Wei. She was seized back in June 1942 and renamed IJN Kali, and was used for local auxiliary convoy escort and sunk by aircraft on 10 October 1944 off Okinawa.

These ships differed hardly by shorter hull and smaller displacement, besides, first funnel in which smoke duct from only one boiler was deduced, was notably more thin, than on 1st and 2nd series of "special type" destroyers. Hibiki became the first all-welded destroyer of the IJN.

She took part in operations during the war with China that began in mid-1937 and was active through the first two and a half years of the Pacific War....