Japanese destroyer Asagumo (1937)
Service
- as Asagumo30 March 1938 — 10 January 19451,958 days of the war
- Name
- Asagumo
- Pennant / hull number
- 1937
- Builder
- Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation
- Ordered
- 1934
- Laid down
- 23 December 1936
- Launched
- 5 November 1937
- Commissioned
- 30 March 1938
- Struck
- 10 January 1945
- Fate
- Sunk in Battle of Surigao Strait, 25 October 1944 (1944)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 2,370 long tons (2,408 t)
- Length
- 118.3 m (388.1 ft) OA
- Beam
- 10.39 m (34.1 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
- 230
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
Asagumo was a Asashio-class destroyer in service with the Imperial Japanese Navy. She carried the pennant number 1937. Her keel was laid at Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation on 23 December 1936. Launched on 5 November 1937, she entered service on 30 March 1938.
Her class ran to ten ships. 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 10.4 m (34 ft). Her designed speed was 35 knots, and she carried a complement of 230.
Her main battery was six 127 mm (5 in) guns.
She was in commission for 1,958 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 10 January 1945.
She was sunk on 25 October 1944. 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 Asagumo (1937) 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. 87; also published in Shizuo Fukui, Nihon No Gunkan: Shashinshu , published 1970 , p.209 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons