Japanese destroyer Ayanami (1909)

Ayanami (綾波) ("cross wave") was a Kamikaze class destroyer in the Imperial Japanese Navy. The last of the Kamikaze-class vessels to be built, she was laid down at Maizuru Naval Arsenal on May 15, 1908, and launched March 20 the next year. Ayanami was nearly obsolete as soon as she was commissioned. On December 1, 1924 she was converted into a minesweeper. She was renamed W-9 on August 1, 1928 to free her name for her World War II counterpart, the Fubuki class Ayanami (1929). On June 1, 1930 she was converted again, this time to a tugboat, and was finally scrapped on April 19, 1933.