Japanese destroyer Yoizuki
Yoizuki in Kure on 16 October 1945, after the war. | |
| History | |
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| Empire of Japan | |
| Name | Yoizuki |
| Builder | Uraga Dock Company |
| Laid down | 25 August 1943 |
| Launched | 25 September 1944 |
| Completed | 31 January 1945 |
| Commissioned | 31 January 1945 |
| Stricken | 5 October 1945 |
| Fate | Transferred to Republic of China Navy, 29 August 1947 |
| Republic of China | |
| Name | Fen Yang |
| Acquired | 29 August 1947 |
| Commissioned | February 1949 |
| Reclassified | As a training ship, 1 October 1949 |
| Fate | Scrapped, 1963 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Akizuki-class destroyer |
| Displacement |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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Yoizuki (宵月, "Evening Moon") was an Akizuki-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was commissioned too late to see action in World War II. Following the war, the ship was handed over to the Republic of China and renamed Fen Yang.