Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
Imperial Japanese Navy — Destroyer

Japanese destroyer Tamanami

Yūgumo-class destroyer

Japanese destroyer Tamanami
Unknown author — 『写真日本の軍艦第11巻 駆逐艦II』p104 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate Imperial Japanese Navy's Yugumo class destroyer Tamanami . Photo taken from Battleship Nagato . This destroyer has often been mislabeled as the Kagero class destroyer Oyashio , even through the funnel stripes don't match, and destroyer division 15 was nowhere near a Nagato class battleship during the timeframe of the photograph.

Service

  1. Imperial Japanese Navy as Tamanami? — 10 September 19441,836 days of the war
Yūgumo-class destroyer Particulars
Name
Tamanami
Builder
Fujinagata Shipyards, Osaka
Laid down
16 March 1942
Launched
20 December 1942
Struck
10 September 1944
Fate
Torpedoed and sunk, 7 July 1944
By torpedo (1944)
Status
Wreck

Specifications

Displacement, standard
2,520 long tons (2,560 t)
Length
119.15 m (390.9 ft)
Beam
10.8 m (35.4 ft)
Draught
3.75 m (12.3 ft)
Speed
35.5 knots (65.7 km/h, 40.9 mph)
Complement
228
Main gun
127 mm (5 in)

Tamanami was a Yūgumo-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Fujinagata Shipyards, Osaka laid her keel on 16 March 1942. She was launched on 20 December 1942.

Her class ran to 19 ships. The class followed the Kagerō-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Akizuki-class destroyer (1942).

Displacement was 2,520 long tons. She measured 119.2 m (391 ft) long with a beam of 10.8 m (35 ft). Her designed speed was 35.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 228.

Her main battery was six 127 mm (5 in) guns.

She was in commission for 1,836 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 10 September 1944.

She was sunk on 7 July 1944 by torpedo. 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
  • Steam engine(s)
Armament
  • 6 × 127 mm/50 cal dual purpose guns
  • up to 28 × Type 96 25 mm anti-aircraft guns
  • up to 4 × 13.2 mm AA guns
  • 8 × 610 mm torpedo tubes for Type 93 torpedoes
  • 36 × depth charges

Sister ships

Sources

  • Facts harvested from Japanese destroyer Tamanami on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
  • Photograph: Unknown author — 『写真日本の軍艦第11巻 駆逐艦II』p104 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons