Japanese destroyer Natsuzuki

Career (Japan)
Name:	Natsuzuki
Builder:	Sasebo Naval Arsenal
Laid down:	1 May 1944
Launched:	2 December 1944
Completed:	8 April 1945
Commissioned:	8 April 1945, 11th Destroyer Squadron
Struck:	5 October 1945
Fate:	Transferred to the United Kingdom, 25 August 1947
Career (UK)
Acquired:	25 August 1947
Fate:	Scrapped, 1948
General characteristics
Class and type:	Akizuki-class destroyer
Displacement:	2,700 long tons (2,743 t) standard 3,700 long tons (3,759 t) full load
Length:	134.2 m (440 ft 3 in)
Beam:	11.6 m (38 ft 1 in)
Draft:	4.15 m (13 ft 7 in)
Propulsion:	4 × Kampon type boilers 2 × Parsons geared turbines 2 × shafts, 50,000 shp (37 MW)
Speed:	33 knots (38 mph; 61 km/h)
Range:	8,300 nmi (15,400 km) at 18 kn (21 mph; 33 km/h)
Complement:	263
Armament:	• 8 × 100 mm (4 in)/65 cal DP guns • Unknown × 25 mm AA guns (3×7 + 1×up to 40) • 4 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes • 8 × Type 93 torpedoes • 54 × Type 95 depth charges

Natsuzuki (夏月^?, "Summer Moon") was an Akizuki-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

On 5 October 1945, Natsuzuki was removed from the Navy List.

On 25 August 1947, she was turned over to Great Britain. She was scrapped at Uraga, Kanagawa in 1948.

See also

• List of World War II ships

External links

• CombinedFleet.com: Akizuki-class destroyers
• CombinedFleet.com: Natsuzuki history