Japanese destroyer Hibiki (1932)

42°50′48″N 131°41′56″E / 42.84667°N 131.69889°E / 42.84667; 131.69889

Hibiki underway on 10 December 1941.
History
Empire of Japan
Name	Hibiki
Namesake	響 ("Echo")[1]
Ordered	1923 Fiscal Year
Builder	Maizuru Naval Arsenal
Laid down	21 February 1930
Launched	16 June 1932
Commissioned	31 March 1933
Stricken	5 October 1945
Reinstated	1 December 1945 (as repatriation transport)
Nickname(s)	Unsinkable Ship The Phoenix The Destroyer Having The Destiny To Survive The War
Fate	Handed over to USSR 5 April 1947
Soviet Union
Name	Verniy (Верный)
Acquired	5 April 1947
In service	7 July 1947
Renamed	Dekabrist (Декабрист), 1948
Stricken	20 February 1953
Fate	Sunk as target mid 1970s
General characteristics
Class and type	Akatsuki-class destroyer
Displacement	1,750 long tons (1,780 t) standard 2,050 long tons (2,080 t) re-built
Length	111.96 m (367.3 ft) pp 115.3 m (378 ft) waterline 118.41 m (388.5 ft) overall
Beam	10.4 m (34 ft 1 in)
Draft	3.2 m (10 ft 6 in)
Propulsion	4 × Kampon type boilers 2 × Kampon Type Ro geared turbines 2 × shafts at 50,000 ihp (37,000 kW)
Speed	38 knots (44 mph; 70 km/h)
Range	5,000 nmi (9,300 km) at 14 knots (26 km/h)
Complement	219
Armament	6 × Type 3 127 mm 50 caliber naval guns (3×2) up to 22 × Type 96 25 mm AT/AA Guns up to 10 × 13 mm AA guns 9 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes 36 × depth charges
Service record
Operations:	Battle of Malaya Battle of the Philippines (1941–42) Aleutian campaign Battle of the Philippine Sea

Hibiki (響, "Echo")^[1] was the twenty-second of twenty-four Fubuki-class destroyers, or the second of the Akatsuki class (if that sub-class is regarded independently), built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the inter-war period. When introduced into service, these ships were the most powerful destroyers in the world.^[2] They remained formidable ships well into the Pacific War. Hibiki was among the few destroyers to survive the war. In 1947; two years after she was struck from the Japanese navy list, Hibiki was transferred to the Soviet Navy as a war reparation, and was later sunk as a target practice sometime in the 1970s.