Japanese destroyer Shimotsuki
Akizuki-class destroyers (1942)
Service
- as Shimotsuki31 March 1944 — 10 January 1945288 days of the war
- Name
- Shimotsuki
- Builder
- Mitsubishi Nagasaki Shipyard
- Laid down
- 6 July 1942
- Launched
- 7 April 1943
- Commissioned
- 31 March 1944
- Struck
- 10 January 1945
- Fate
- Sunk, 25 November 1944 (1944)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 2,701 long tons (2,744 t)
- Length
- 134.2 m (440.3 ft)
- Beam
- 11.6 m (38.1 ft)
- Draught
- 4.15 m (13.6 ft)
- Speed
- 33 knots (61.1 km/h, 38 mph)
- Range
- 8,300 nmi (15,372 km)
- Complement
- 300
- Main gun
- 100 mm (3.9 in)
Shimotsuki was a destroyer of the Akizuki-class destroyers (1942) in service with the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her keel was laid at Mitsubishi Nagasaki Shipyard on 6 July 1942. She entered service on 31 March 1944, having been launched on 7 April 1943.
She displaced 2,701 long tons. She measured 134.2 m (440 ft) long with a beam of 11.6 m (38 ft). Her designed speed was 33 knots, and she carried a complement of 300.
Her main battery was eight 100 mm (3.9 in) guns. Her machinery developed 52,000 shp.
She was in commission for 288 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 10 January 1945.
She was sunk on 25 November 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 × shafts; 2 × geared steam turbines
- Power
- 3 × water-tube boilers
- 52000 shp
- Armament
- 8 × 100 mm DP guns
- 35 × 25 mm AA guns (3×7 + 1×14)
- 4 × 610 mm torpedo tubes
- 56 × Type 95 depth charges
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese destroyer Shimotsuki on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy — U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No. 1996.488.258.002 ; Official U.S. Navy photo 80-G-284705 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons