Japanese destroyer Ayanami (1909)

	Ayanami
History
Empire of Japan
Name	Ayanami
Builder	Maizuru Naval Arsenal
Launched	20 March 1909
Completed	26 June 1909
Out of service	19 April 1933
Renamed	W-9, 1926
Reclassified	As a minesweeper, 1 December 1924; As a tugboat and dispatch boat, 1 June 1930;
Fate	Scrapped after April 1933
General characteristics (as built)
Class & type	Kamikaze-class destroyer
Displacement	381 long tons (387 t); 450 long tons (460 t) (full load);
Length	227 ft (69.2 m) (pp); 234 ft (71 m) (o/a);
Beam	21 ft 7 in (6.6 m)
Draught	6 ft (1.8 m)
Installed power	4 boilers; 6,000 ihp (4,500 kW)
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 triple-expansion steam engines
Speed	29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph)
Range	1,200 nmi (2,200 km; 1,400 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	70
Armament	2 × single 3 in (76 mm) 12 cwt guns; 4 × single 3 in (76 mm) 8 cwt guns; 2 × single 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes;

Ayanami (綾波) ("cross wave") was the last of 32 Kamikaze-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the first decade of the 20th century.

History
Ayanami
Empire of Japan
Name	Ayanami
Builder	Maizuru Naval Arsenal
Launched	20 March 1909
Completed	26 June 1909
Out of service	19 April 1933
Renamed	W-9, 1926
Reclassified	As a minesweeper, 1 December 1924 As a tugboat and dispatch boat, 1 June 1930
Fate	Scrapped after April 1933
General characteristics (as built)
Class & type	Kamikaze-class destroyer
Displacement	381 long tons (387 t) 450 long tons (460 t) (full load)
Length	227 ft (69.2 m) (pp) 234 ft (71 m) (o/a)
Beam	21 ft 7 in (6.6 m)
Draught	6 ft (1.8 m)
Installed power	4 boilers; 6,000 ihp (4,500 kW)
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 triple-expansion steam engines
Speed	29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph)
Range	1,200 nmi (2,200 km; 1,400 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	70
Armament	2 × single 3 in (76 mm) 12 cwt guns 4 × single 3 in (76 mm) 8 cwt guns 2 × single 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes