Japanese destroyer Michishio
Service
- as Michishio31 October 1937 — 10 January 19451,958 days of the war
- Name
- Michishio
- Builder
- Fujinagata Shipyards
- Ordered
- 1934
- Laid down
- 5 November 1935
- Launched
- 15 March 1937
- Commissioned
- 31 October 1937
- Struck
- 10 January 1945
- Fate
- Sunk by USS McDermut and USS Hutchins during the 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
- 10.3 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)
Michishio was a Asashio-class destroyer, operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy. Fujinagata Shipyards laid her keel on 5 November 1935. She entered service on 31 October 1937, having been launched on 15 March 1937.
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 10.3 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 1,958 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 10 January 1945.
She was sunk on 25 October 1944, at 10°25′N 125°23′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 Michishio 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. 85 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons