| Japanese destroyer Yoizuki | |
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| Career (Japan) |  |
| Name: | Yoizuki |
| Builder: | Uraga Dock Company |
| Laid down: | 25 August 1943 |
| Launched: | 25 September 1944 |
| Completed: | 31 January 1945 |
| Commissioned: | 31 January 1945, 11th Destroyer Squadron |
| Struck: | 5 October 1945 |
| Fate: | Transferred to China, 29 August 1947 |
| Career (Republic of China) |  |
| Name: | Fen Yang |
| Acquired: | 29 August 1947 |
| Commissioned: | February 1949, Training Fleet |
| Struck: | 1963 |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 1963 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Akizuki-class destroyer |
| Displacement: |
2,700 long tons (2,743 t) standard 3,700 long tons (3,759 t) full load |
| 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: |
4 × Kampon type boilers 2 × Parsons geared turbines 2 × shafts, 50,000 shp (37 MW) |
| 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 |
| Armament: |
• 8 × 100 mm (4 in)/65 cal DP guns • Unknown × 25 mm AA guns (3×7 + 1×up to 40) • 4 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes • 16 × Type 93 torpedoes • 54 × Type 95 depth charges |
Yoizuki (宵月) was an Akizuki-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her name means "Moon Visible as Day Joins Evening". She was commissioned too late to see action in World War II.
In March, 1946, Yoizuki was used to transport over 1,000 Formosans, Filipinos and Japanese prisoners of war from Sydney, Australia. The conditions aboard ship and the obvious distress of the repatriates prompted controversy in Australia.
On 29 August 1947, Yoizuki was turned over to the Republic of China. Renamed CNS Fen Yang, she was scrapped in 1963.
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