Overview
IJN Uranami is documented as a ships with time-bounded service identities where renaming or reclassification occurred.
IJN Uranami is associated with Japan and Imperial Japanese Navy. It belonged to Fubuki class, so the class page provides the shared design history while this page concentrates on the individual ship.
Construction and identity
The available construction record identifies IJN Uranami as laid down on 1927-04, launched on 1928-11-29, and completed on 1929-06.
The ship's documented identity includes service with Imperial Japanese Navy.
Service history
Fubuki-type destroyer combining a heavy gun and torpedo battery with high speed and long-range fleet service.
The ship's configuration should be interpreted through the documented class and the dates attached to this individual vessel; equipment should not be assumed to have remained unchanged throughout service.
Class context: Fubuki class
Twenty large Japanese fleet destroyers with an unusually heavy gun and torpedo battery for their era.
As a member of Fubuki class, IJN Uranami shared the class's documented design framework and intended roles of Fleet destroyer and Torpedo attack. Individual refits, transfers, and wartime changes belong to this ship only when separately documented.
Later service and disposition
The recorded final status is unknown.
IJN Uranami matters as an individual career within Fubuki class, allowing class-wide design history to be separated from this ship's own construction, identities, service, and fate.
Class relationship
This ship is recorded as a member of Fubuki class. Shared design history belongs on the class page; this page concentrates on the individual hull where evidence is available.
Sources and further reading
- Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1922–1946Conway Maritime Press
- Treaty Between the United States of America, the British Empire, France, Italy, and Japan, Limiting Naval Armament ↗U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian · accessed 2026-09-18
- FUBUKI destroyers (1928–1932) ↗Navypedia · accessed 2026-09-18