Japanese destroyer Akigumo (1941)
Service
- as Akigumo27 September 1941 — 10 June 1944987 days of the war
- Name
- Akigumo
- Pennant / hull number
- 1941
- Builder
- Uraga Dock Company
- Ordered
- 4 March 1939
- Laid down
- 2 July 1940
- Launched
- 11 April 1941
- Commissioned
- 27 September 1941
- Struck
- 10 June 1944
- Fate
- Torpedoed and sunk, 11 April 1944
By torpedo (1944) - Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 2,490 long tons (2,530 t)
- Length
- 118.5 m (388.8 ft)
- Beam
- 10.8 m (35.4 ft)
- Draught
- 3.8 m (12.5 ft)
- Speed
- 35 knots (64.8 km/h, 40.3 mph)
- Complement
- 240
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
Akigumo was a Kagerō-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. She carried the pennant number 1941. Her keel was laid at Uraga Dock Company on 2 July 1940. She entered service on 27 September 1941, having been launched on 11 April 1941.
She was one of 19 ships of her class. The class followed the Asashio-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Yūgumo-class destroyer.
She displaced 2,490 long tons. She measured 118.5 m (389 ft) long with a beam of 10.8 m (35 ft). Her designed speed was 35 knots, and she carried a complement of 240.
Her main battery was six 127 mm (5 in) guns.
She was in commission for 987 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 10 June 1944.
She was sunk on 11 April 1944 by torpedo, at 6°43′N 122°23′E. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Armament
- 6 × 12.7 cm guns
- 2 × twin 25 mm AA guns
- up to 4 × 13.2 mm AA guns
- 8 × 61 cm torpedo tubes
- 36 depth charges
- (1944)
- 4 × 12.7 cm guns
- Up to 28 25 mm (1 in) AA guns
Sister ships
- Japanese destroyer Amatsukaze (1939)
- Japanese destroyer Arashi
- Japanese destroyer Hagikaze
- Japanese destroyer Hamakaze (1940)
- Japanese destroyer Hatsukaze
- Japanese destroyer Hayashio
- Japanese destroyer Isokaze (1939)
- Japanese destroyer Kagerō (1938)
- Japanese destroyer Kuroshio
- Japanese destroyer Maikaze
- Japanese destroyer Natsushio
- Japanese destroyer Nowaki (1940)
- Japanese destroyer Oyashio
- Japanese destroyer Shiranui (1938)
- Japanese destroyer Tanikaze (1940)
- Japanese destroyer Tokitsukaze (1939)
- Japanese destroyer Urakaze (1940)
- Japanese destroyer Yukikaze (1939)
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese destroyer Akigumo (1941) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown photographer, Imperial Japanese Navy photos. Courtesy by Takashi Tateyama (Editor-in-Chief of Glorious Destroyer Akigumo published by Destroyer Akigumo Association). — Toshio Tamura, "A Verification for Destroyer Akigumo of Japanese Navy", Sekai no Kansen , No. 479, Kaijin-Sha, April 1994, p. 150 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons