Harusame Class Destroyers Class Overview

Dimensions, machinery and performance

Length:
234' 3"
Engines:
2 reciprocating
Beam:
21' 6"
Boilers:
4 (coal fired)
Draft:
6'
Shafts:
2
Displacement:
375 std / 435 full
HP:
6,000
Speed:
29 knots
Crew:
61
Range:
1,200 NM @ 12 knots


Armament As Built
Number Carried
Type
Arrangement
Maximum Range / Ceiling
6
3"/40 (76mm)

Single mounts
11,750 yards @ 40° (6.6 miles)
12.5 lb. HE shell
2
18" (450mm)
torpedo tubes
Single launchers
3,300 yards @ 15 knots (1.8 miles)
198 lb. Picric Acid or Shimose warhead


Name
Builder
Launched
Completed
Harusame
Yokosuka Navy Yard
Yokosuka, Japan
Oct. 31, 1902
N/A
Fate
Wrecked and abandoned Nov. 24, 1911.

Location: Matoya Bay, Honshu, Japan.
(34.22N - 136.52E)
Name
Builder
Launched
Completed
Murasame
Yokosuka Navy Yard
Yokosuka, Japan
Nov. 29, 1902
N/A
Fate
Scrapped in 1923.
Name
Builder
Launched
Completed
Hayatori
Yokosuka Navy Yard
Yokosuka, Japan
Mar. 12, 1903
N/A
Fate
Sunk Sept. 3, 1904 by mine.

Location: Yellow Sea, 13 miles East of Port Arthur (Lüshun), Laioning Provence, China.
(38.47N - 121.30E)

Unknown known number of casualties or survivors.
Name
Builder
Launched
Completed
Asagiri
Yokosuka Navy Yard
Yokosuka, Japan
Apr. 15, 1903
N/A
Fate
Scrapped after 1923.

*Possibly used as target
Name
Builder
Launched
Completed
Ariake
Kure Navy Yard
Kure, Japan
Dec. 17, 1904
N/A
Fate
Scrapped in 1926.
Name
Builder
Launched
Completed
Fubuki
Kure Navy Yard
Kure, Japan
Jan. 21, 1905
N/A
Fate
Scrapped in 1926.
Name
Builder
Launched
Completed
Arare
Kure Navy Yard
Kure, Japan
Apr. 5, 1905
N/A
Fate
Scrapped in 1926.


Page revised May 6, 2007