Japanese destroyer Momi (1944)
Service
- as Momi? — 10 March 19452,017 days of the war
- Name
- Momi
- Pennant / hull number
- 1944
- Builder
- Yokosuka Naval Arsenal
- Ordered
- 1942
- Laid down
- 2 January 1944
- Launched
- 16 June 1944
- Struck
- 10 March 1945
- Fate
- Sunk by aircraft, 5 January 1945
By aircraft (1945) - Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,262 long tons (1,282 t)
- Length
- 100 m (328.1 ft) OA
- Beam
- 9.35 m (30.7 ft)
- Draught
- 3.3 m (10.8 ft)
- Speed
- 27.8 knots (51.5 km/h, 32 mph)
- Range
- 4,680 nmi (8,667 km)
- Complement
- 210
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
Momi was a Matsu-class destroyer escort destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. She carried the pennant number 1944. Her keel was laid at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal on 2 January 1944. She was launched on 16 June 1944.
Her class ran to 18 ships. The class followed the Ōtori-class torpedo boat.
She displaced 1,262 long tons. She measured 100 m (328 ft) long with a beam of 9.3 m (31 ft). Her designed speed was 27.8 knots, and she carried a complement of 210.
Her main battery was one 127 mm (5 in) guns. 19,000 shp drove two shafts.
She was in commission for 2,017 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 10 March 1945.
She was sunk on 5 January 1945 by aircraft, at 14°00′N 120°20′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
- Propulsion
- 2 shafts, 2 × geared steam turbines
- Power
- 2 × water-tube boilers; 19000 shp
- Armament
- 1 × twin, 1 × single 127 mm DP guns
- 4 × triple, 13 × single 25 mm AA guns
- 1 × quadruple 610 mm torpedo tubes
- 2 × rails, 2 × throwers for 36 depth charges
Sister ships
- Japanese destroyer Hinoki (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Kaede (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Kashi (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Kaya (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Keyaki (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Kiri (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Kuwa (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Maki (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Matsu (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Momo (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Nara (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Sakura (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Sugi (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Take (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Tsubaki (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Ume (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Yanagi (1944)
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese destroyer Momi (1944) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Shizuo Fukui — Kure Maritime Museum, Japanese Naval Warship Photo Album: Destroyers , edited by Kazushige Todaka, p. 130 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons