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Hatakaze 1962 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
あさかぜ [Asakaze] (ex-Ellyson)	DD181	195	Federal, Kearny, USA	12/1940	25.7.1941	11/1941 // 19.10.1954	returned 1969
はたかぜ [Hatakaze] (ex-Macomb)	DD182	192	Bath Iron Wks, USA	9/1940	23.9.1941	1/1942 // 19.10.1954	returned 1969

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1900
Displacement full, t	2600
Length, m	103.9 wl 106.2 oa
Breadth, m	11.0
Draught, m	4.92 full load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Westinghouse geared steam turbines, 4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Power, h. p.	50000
Max speed, kts	35
Fuel, t	oil 302 - 453
Endurance, nm(kts)	3630(20) - 3880(20)
Armament	4 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30, 2 x 4 - 40/60 Mk 2, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (34)
Electronic equipment	SC, SG, Mk 12.22 radars, QCJ sonar
Complement	208

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Project history

Former USN Gleaves/Bristol class destroyers, transferred under MDAP.

Modernizations

1962, Hatakaze; 1965, Asakaze: - 1 x 1 - 127/38; + 2 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 11 ASWRL

Naval service

No significant events.