Japanese destroyer Hibiki (1932)
42°50′48″N 131°41′56″E / 42.84667°N 131.69889°E
Hibiki underway on 10 December 1941. | |
| History | |
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| Empire of Japan | |
| Name | Hibiki |
| Namesake | 響 ("Echo") |
| Ordered | 1923 Fiscal Year |
| Builder | Maizuru Naval Arsenal |
| Laid down | 21 February 1930 |
| Launched | 16 June 1932 |
| Commissioned | 31 March 1933 |
| Stricken | 5 October 1945 |
| Reinstated | 1 December 1945 (as repatriation transport) |
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| Fate | Handed over to USSR 5 April 1947 |
| Soviet Union | |
| Name | Verniy (Верный) |
| Acquired | 5 April 1947 |
| In service | 7 July 1947 |
| Renamed | Dekabrist (Декабрист), 1948 |
| Stricken | 20 February 1953 |
| Fate | Sunk as target mid 1970s |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Akatsuki-class destroyer |
| Displacement | |
| Length |
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| Beam | 10.4 m (34 ft 1 in) |
| Draft | 3.2 m (10 ft 6 in) |
| Propulsion | |
| Speed | 38 knots (44 mph; 70 km/h) |
| Range | 5,000 nmi (9,300 km) at 14 knots (26 km/h) |
| Complement | 219 |
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Hibiki (響, "Echo") was the twenty-second of twenty-four Fubuki-class destroyers, or the second of the Akatsuki class (if that sub-class is regarded independently), built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the inter-war period. Hibiki was among the few destroyers to survive the war. In 1947; two years after she was struck from the Japanese navy list, Hibiki was transferred to the Soviet Navy as a war reparation, and was later sunk as a target practice sometime in the 1970s.