Japanese destroyer Akatsuki

Three destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy have been named {{Nihongo|Akatsuki|暁||”dawn” or "daybreak"}}:

• {{ship|Japanese destroyer|Akatsuki|1901}}, lead ship of the {{sclass|Akatsuki|destroyer|1||1901}}s of the Imperial Japanese Navy commissioned in 1903 and sunk in May 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War
• {{ship|Russian destroyer|Reshitel‘nyi}}, an Imperial Russian Navy {{sclass|Sokol|destroyer|1}} 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
• {{ship|Japanese destroyer|Akatsuki|1932}}, a {{sclass|Fubuki|destroyer|1}} or lead ship of the {{sclass|Akatsuki|destroyer|1||1931}}s of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II