Japanese destroyer Hatsukaze
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| Fate: | Sunk in action, 2 November 1943 |
| Struck: | 3 January 1944 |
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| Displacement: | 2,490 tons |
| Length: | 388 ft 9 in (118.5 meters |
| Beam: | 35 ft 5 in (10.8 m) |
| Draft: | 12 ft 4 in (3.8 m) |
| Speed: | 35 knots (65 km/h) |
| Complement: | 240 |
| Armament: | 6 × 5 in (127 mm) / 50 caliber DP guns, up to 28 × 25 mm AA guns, up to 4 × 13 mm AA guns, 8 × 24 in torpedo tubes, 36 depth charges |
Hatsukaze was a Kagero-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
On 2 November 1943, while attacking an Allied task force off Bougainville in the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, Hatsukaze collided with the cruiser Myoko. After those Japanese ships able to do so had withdrawn, Hatsukaze and Sendai were sunk at () by Allied destroyer gunfire.
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| Kagero-class destroyer |
| Kagero | Kuroshio | Oyashio | Hatsukaze | Natsushio | Yukikaze | Hayashio | Maikaze | Isokaze | Shiranuhi | Amatsukaze | Tokitsukaze | Urakaze | Hamakaze | Nowaki | Arashi | Hagikaze | Tanikaze | Akigumo |
| List of ships of the Japanese Navy |
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