Japanese destroyer Natsugumo (1937)
Service
- as Natsugumo10 February 1938 — 15 November 19421,171 days of the war
- Name
- Natsugumo
- Pennant / hull number
- 1937
- Builder
- Sasebo Naval Arsenal
- Ordered
- 1934
- Laid down
- 1 July 1936
- Launched
- 26 May 1937
- Commissioned
- 10 February 1938
- Struck
- 15 November 1942
- Fate
- Sunk in air attack, 12 October 1942
By aircraft (1942) - 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)
Natsugumo was a Asashio-class destroyer built for the Imperial Japanese Navy. She carried the pennant number 1937. Sasebo Naval Arsenal laid her keel on 1 July 1936. Launched on 26 May 1937, she entered service on 10 February 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 10.3 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 1,171 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 15 November 1942.
She was sunk on 12 October 1942 by aircraft, at 8°40′S 159°20′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 Natsugumo (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. 89 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons