Japanese destroyer Kazagumo
Service
- as Kazagumo? — 10 July 19441,774 days of the war
- Name
- Kazagumo
- Builder
- Uraga Dock Company
- Laid down
- 23 December 1940
- Launched
- 26 September 1941
- Struck
- 10 July 1944
- Fate
- Torpedoed and sunk, 8 June 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 knots (64.8 km/h, 40.3 mph)
- Complement
- 228
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
Kazagumo was a Yūgumo-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her keel was laid at Uraga Dock Company on 23 December 1940. She was launched on 26 September 1941.
She was one of 19 ships of her class. 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 knots, and she carried a complement of 228.
Her main battery was six 127 mm (5 in) guns.
She was in commission for 1,774 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 10 July 1944.
She was sunk on 8 June 1944 by torpedo, at 6°03′N 125°57′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 × 127 mm/50 caliber DP guns
- up to 28 × Type 96 25 mm AA guns
- up to 4 × 13.2 mm AA guns
- 8 × 610 mm torpedo tubes for Type 93 torpedoes
- 36 depth charges
Sister ships
- Japanese destroyer Akishimo
- Japanese destroyer Asashimo
- Japanese destroyer Fujinami
- Japanese destroyer Hamanami
- Japanese destroyer Hayanami
- Japanese destroyer Hayashimo
- Japanese destroyer Kishinami
- Japanese destroyer Kiyonami
- Japanese destroyer Kiyoshimo
- Japanese destroyer Makigumo (1941)
- Japanese destroyer Makinami (1941)
- Japanese destroyer Naganami
- Japanese destroyer Okinami
- Japanese destroyer Ōnami (1942)
- Japanese destroyer Suzunami (1943)
- Japanese destroyer Takanami (1942)
- Japanese destroyer Tamanami
- Japanese destroyer Yūgumo (1941)
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese destroyer Kazagumo 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. 109 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons