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*<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:11.333333015441895px;line-height:17.27083396911621px;">Scuttled following Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:11.333333015441895px;line-height:17.27083396911621px;">, November 15, 1942</span> ([http://tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?pagename=Japanese_destroyer_Ayanami_%281929%29&params=9_10_S_159_52_E_type:landmark_region:SB 9°10′S 159°52′E])
 
*<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:11.333333015441895px;line-height:17.27083396911621px;">Scuttled following Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:11.333333015441895px;line-height:17.27083396911621px;">, November 15, 1942</span> ([http://tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?pagename=Japanese_destroyer_Ayanami_%281929%29&params=9_10_S_159_52_E_type:landmark_region:SB 9°10′S 159°52′E])
 
*Her name means "Crossing waves"
 
*Her name means "Crossing waves"
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*While in KanColle she is the lead ship of the Ayanami Class, in other contexts she is referred to to as the 11th ship of the Fubuki class.  She was the first of the greater Fubuki class (containing the Fubuki, Ayanami and Akatsuki classes) with a modified gun turret allowing her guns to angle up to 75 degrees.
 
*Wreck discovered in 1992 by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ballard Dr. Robert Ballard]
 
*Wreck discovered in 1992 by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ballard Dr. Robert Ballard]
 
*Ayanami is one of the three IJN ships in Ironbottom Sound, along with [[Kirishima]] and [[Yuudachi]].
 
*Ayanami is one of the three IJN ships in Ironbottom Sound, along with [[Kirishima]] and [[Yuudachi]].
 
*Her second remodel represents her performance during her final mission, a night battle where she formed a single 'prong' of a three-pronged attack alone (other prongs each contained a light cruiser and multiple destroyers), sank (or helped sink) three destroyers, heavily damaged a fourth, and traded fire with a battleship, the ''USS South Dakota''.
 
*Her second remodel represents her performance during her final mission, a night battle where she formed a single 'prong' of a three-pronged attack alone (other prongs each contained a light cruiser and multiple destroyers), sank (or helped sink) three destroyers, heavily damaged a fourth, and traded fire with a battleship, the ''USS South Dakota''.
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*The famous Anime character Rei Ayanami takes her family name from the destroyer Ayanami.
    
==See Also==
 
==See Also==
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