Japanese destroyer Minegumo (1937)
Service
- as Minegumo4 April 1938 — 1 April 19431,308 days of the war
- Name
- Minegumo
- Pennant / hull number
- 1937
- Builder
- Fujinagata Shipyards
- Ordered
- 1934
- Laid down
- 22 March 1937
- Launched
- 4 November 1937
- Commissioned
- 4 April 1938
- Struck
- 1 April 1943
- Fate
- Sunk in Battle of Blackett Strait, 5 March 1943 (1943)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 2,370 long tons (2,408 t)
- Length
- 118.3 m (388.1 ft) OA
- Beam
- 10.39 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)
Minegumo was a Asashio-class destroyer in service with the Imperial Japanese Navy. She carried the pennant number 1937. Her keel was laid at Fujinagata Shipyards on 22 March 1937. Launched on 4 November 1937, she entered service on 4 April 1938.
Her class ran to ten ships. The class followed the Shiratsuyu-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Kagerō-class destroyer.
She displaced 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 1,308 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 1 April 1943.
She was sunk on 5 March 1943, at 8°01′S 157°14′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 Minegumo (1937) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Fujinagata Shipyard or Imperial Japanese Navy. — Fukui Shizuo "Fukui Shizuo collection, Japanese Naval Vessels 1869-1945", Bestsellers(Japan),1994 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons