Japanese destroyer Ayanami (1909)

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Career
Name:	Ayanami
Builder:	Maizuru Naval Yard
Laid down:	May 15, 1908
Launched:	March 20, 1909
Renamed:	"W-9" on August 1, 1928
Reclassified:	minesweeper on December 1, 1924
Reclassified:	tugboat on June 1, 1930
Fate:	scrapped April 19, 1933
General Characteristics
Class and type:	Asakaze class destroyer
Displacement:	381 tons (standard), 450 tons (full)
Length:	72.0 m (236' 2")
Beam:	6.6 m (21' 7")
Draft:	1.8 m (5' 9")
Propulsion:	4 × boilers, 2 × reciprocating engines 2 × shafts at 6,000 shp
Speed:	29 knots
Range:	1,200 nm at 15 knots
Complement:	70
Armament:	2 × 8 cm / 40 cal (3") guns, 4 × 8 cm / 28 cal (3") guns, 2 × 45 cm (18") torpedo tubes

The Ayanami (綾波) was a Asakaze class destroyer in the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was laid down at Maizuru Naval Yard on May 15, 1908, and launched March 20 the next year. As the 32nd and final member of her class (itself was a close derivative of the earlier British designed Harusame class), 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 WWII counterpart, the Fubuki class Ayanami (1929). On June 1, 1930 she would be converted again, this time to a tugboat, which she would remain until she was finally scrapped on April 19, 1933.