Japanese destroyer Yamagumo (1937)
Service
- as Yamagumo15 January 1938 — 10 January 19451,958 days of the war
- Name
- Yamagumo
- Pennant / hull number
- 1937
- Builder
- Fujinagata Shipyards
- Ordered
- 1934
- Laid down
- 4 November 1936
- Launched
- 24 July 1937
- Commissioned
- 15 January 1938
- Struck
- 10 January 1945
- Fate
- Sunk in action, 25 October 1944 (1944)
- 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)
Yamagumo was a Asashio-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. She carried the pennant number 1937. Fujinagata Shipyards laid her keel on 4 November 1936. She entered service on 15 January 1938, having been launched on 24 July 1937.
She was one of ten ships of her class. 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 1,958 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 10 January 1945.
She was sunk on 25 October 1944, at 10°25′N 125°23′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 Yamagumo (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. 88 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons