Japanese destroyer Ayanami

Japanese destroyer Ayanami

Three naval vessels of Japan have been named "Ayanami" (綾波), meaning "Wave Patterns", "Weave Wave", (Waves whose beauty suggests figures woven in silk). [http://www.combinedfleet.com/ijnnames.htm]

*Japanese destroyer "Ayanami" (1909) was an "Asakaze"-class destroyer in the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was launched in 1909, converted first to a minesweeper in 1924, then to a tugboat in 1930. She was finally scrapped in 1933.

* Japanese destroyer "Ayanami" (1929) was a Type II "Fubuki"-class destroyer in the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was launched in 1929 and sunk in 1942.

* Japanese destroyer "Ayanami" (DD-103) was the lead ship of her class of destroyer in the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force. She was launched in 1957 and decommissioned in 1986.


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