Japanese destroyer Usugumo (1927)
Service
- as Usugumo26 July 1928 — 10 September 19441,836 days of the war
- Name
- Usugumo
- Pennant / hull number
- 1927
- Builder
- Ishikawajima Shipyards
- Ordered
- 1923
- Laid down
- 21 October 1926
- Launched
- 26 December 1927
- Commissioned
- 26 July 1928
- Struck
- 10 September 1944
- Fate
- Torpedoed and sunk, 5 July 1944
By torpedo (1944) - Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,750 long tons (1,778 t)
- Length
- 118.41 m (388.5 ft) OA
- Beam
- 10.4 m (34.1 ft)
- Draught
- 3.2 m (10.5 ft)
- Speed
- 38 knots (70.4 km/h, 43.7 mph)
- Range
- 5,000 nmi (9,260 km)
- Complement
- 219
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
Usugumo was a Fubuki-class destroyer, operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy. She carried the pennant number 1927. Her keel was laid at Ishikawajima Shipyards on 21 October 1926. Launched on 26 December 1927, she entered service on 26 July 1928.
Her class ran to 21 ships. The class followed the Mutsuki-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Hatsuharu-class destroyer.
She displaced 1,750 long tons. She measured 118.4 m (388 ft) long with a beam of 10.4 m (34 ft). Her designed speed was 38 knots, and she carried a complement of 219. Her main battery was of 127 mm (5 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 1,836 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 10 September 1944.
She was sunk on 5 July 1944 by torpedo, at 47°43′N 147°55′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
- 4 × Kampon type boilers
- 2 × Kampon Type Ro geared turbines
- 2 × shafts at 50000 ihp
- Armament
- 6 × Type 3 127 mm 50 caliber naval guns (3×2)
- up to 22 × Type 96 25 mm AT/AA guns
- up to 10 × 13 mm AA guns
- 9 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes
- 36 × depth charges
Sister ships
- Japanese destroyer Akebono (1930)
- Japanese destroyer Amagiri (1930)
- Japanese destroyer Asagiri (1929)
- Japanese destroyer Ayanami (1929)
- Japanese destroyer Fubuki (1927)
- Japanese destroyer Hatsuyuki (1928)
- Japanese destroyer Ikazuchi (1931)
- Japanese destroyer Inazuma (1932)
- Japanese destroyer Isonami (1927)
- Japanese destroyer Murakumo (1928)
- Japanese destroyer Oboro (1930)
- Japanese destroyer Sagiri
- Japanese destroyer Sazanami (1931)
- Japanese destroyer Shikinami (1929)
- Japanese destroyer Shinonome (1927)
- Japanese destroyer Shirakumo (1927)
- Japanese destroyer Shirayuki (1928)
- Japanese destroyer Uranami (1928)
- Japanese destroyer Ushio (1930)
- Japanese destroyer Yūgiri (1930)
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese destroyer Usugumo (1927) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Presumed official IJN photographer — Kure Maritime Museum (?) A part of Shizuo Fukui's collection possibly — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons