Japanese destroyer Arashio
Service
- as Arashio30 December 1937 — 1 April 19431,308 days of the war
- Name
- Arashio
- Builder
- Kawasaki Shipyards
- Ordered
- 1934
- Laid down
- 1 October 1935
- Launched
- 26 May 1937
- Commissioned
- 30 December 1937
- Struck
- 1 April 1943
- Fate
- Sunk in Battle of the Bismarck Sea, 4 March 1943 (1943)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 2,370 long tons (2,408 t)
- Length
- 118.3 m (388.1 ft) OA
- Beam
- 10.3 m (33.8 ft)
- Draught
- 3.7 m (12.1 ft)
- Speed
- 35 knots (64.8 km/h, 40.3 mph)
- Range
- 5,700 nmi (10,556 km)
- Complement
- 200
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
Arashio was a Asashio-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Kawasaki Shipyards laid her keel on 1 October 1935. She entered service on 30 December 1937, having been launched on 26 May 1937.
Ten ships of the class were built. The class followed the Shiratsuyu-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Kagerō-class destroyer.
Displacement was 2,370 long tons. She measured 118.3 m (388 ft) long with a beam of 10.3 m (34 ft). Her designed speed was 35 knots, and she carried a complement of 200.
Her main battery was six 127 mm (5 in) guns.
She was in commission for 1,308 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 1 April 1943.
She was sunk on 4 March 1943, at 7°15′S 148°30′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-shaft geared turbine, 3 boilers, 50000 shp
- Armament
- 6 × 12.7 cm/50 Type 3 DP guns
- up to 28 × Type 96 AA guns
- up to 4 × Type 93 AA guns
- 8 × 24 in torpedo tubes
- 36 depth charges
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese destroyer Arashio 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. 86 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons