Japanese destroyer Sumire (1944)
Tachibana sub-class of the Matsu-class destroyer escort destroyer
Service
- as Sumire? — 5 October 19452,193 days of the war
- Name
- Sumire
- Pennant / hull number
- 1944
- Namesake
- Violet
- Builder
- Yokosuka Naval Arsenal
- Ordered
- 1943
- Laid down
- 21 October 1944
- Launched
- 27 December 1944
- Struck
- 5 October 1945
- Fate
- Turned over to the Royal Navy, 20 August 1947, and sunk as a target (1947)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,288 long tons (1,309 t)
- Length
- 100 m (328.1 ft) OA
- Beam
- 9.35 m (30.7 ft)
- Draught
- 3.37 m (11.1 ft)
- Speed
- 27.8 knots (51.5 km/h, 32 mph)
- Range
- 4,680 nmi (8,667 km)
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
Sumire was a Tachibana sub-class of the Matsu-class destroyer escort destroyer in service with the Imperial Japanese Navy. She carried the pennant number 1944. She was named for Violet. Yokosuka Naval Arsenal laid her keel on 21 October 1944. She was launched on 27 December 1944.
Displacement was 1,288 long tons. She measured 100 m (328 ft) long with a beam of 9.3 m (31 ft). Her designed speed was 27.8 knots.
Her main battery was one 127 mm (5 in) guns. Her machinery developed 19,000 shp through two shafts.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 5 October 1945.
She was expended as a target on 20 August 1947. 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
- 2 × water-tube boilers
- 19000 shp
- Armament
- 1 × twin, 1 × single 127 mm DP guns
- 4 × triple, 13 × single 25 mm AA guns
- 1 × quadruple 610 mm torpedo tubes
- 2 × rails, 2 × throwers for 60 depth charges
Sister ships
- Japanese destroyer Enoki (1945)
- Japanese destroyer Hagi (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Hatsuume
- Japanese destroyer Hatsuzakura
- Japanese destroyer Kaba (1945)
- Japanese destroyer Kaki (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Kusunoki (1945)
- Japanese destroyer Nire (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Odake
- Japanese destroyer Shii
- Japanese destroyer Tsuta (1944)
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese destroyer Sumire (1944) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Commander Naval Forces Far East — Japanese Naval Vessels Survived" by Shizuo Fukui 福井静夫（著）『終戦と帝国艦艇 -わが海軍の終焉と艦艇の帰趨-』p.214 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons