Japanese destroyer Yoizuki
Yoizuki was an 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.
Design and description
The Akizuki-class ships were originally designed as anti-aircraft escorts for carrier battle groups, but were modified with torpedo tubes and depth charges to meet the need for more general-purpose destroyers. The ships measured overall, with beams of and drafts of. They displaced at standard load and at deep load. Their crews numbered 300 officers and enlisted men.Each ship had two Kampon geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft using steam provided by three Kampon water-tube boilers. The turbines were rated at a total of for a designed speed of. The ships carried enough fuel oil to give them ranges of at speeds of.
The main armament of the Akizuki class consisted of eight 10 cm/65 [Type 98 naval gun|10 cm Type 98] dual-purpose guns in four twin-gun turrets, one superfiring pair fore and aft of the superstructure. Yoizuki was equipped with 41 Type 96 [25 mm AT/AA Gun|Type 96 ] anti-aircraft (AA) guns in seven triple-gun mounts and twenty single mounts. The ships were also each armed with four torpedo tubes in a single quadruple rotating mount amidships for Type 93 (Long Lance) torpedoes; one reload was carried for each tube. The later batches of ships were each equipped with two depth charge throwers and two sets of rails for which 72 depth charges were carried. Yoizuki was equipped with a List of Japanese World [War II radars|Type 13] early-warning radar on her mainmast and a Type 22 surface-search radar on her foremast.