Japanese destroyer Akatsuki explained

Three destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy have been named :

• , lead ship of the s of the Imperial Japanese Navy commissioned in 1903 and sunk in May 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War
• , an Imperial Russian Navy captured by the Japanese in August 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War which subsequently served in the Imperial Japanese Navy as Akatsuki from 1904 to 1905 and as Yamabiko (also transliterated as Yamahiko) from 1905 to 1917
• , a or lead ship of the s of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II

See also

• Akatsuki (disambiguation)
  • , a launched in 2020 for the Japan Coast Guard