Japanese destroyer Amatsukaze
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Fate: | Sunk in action, 6 April 1945 |
Struck: | 10 August 1945 |
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Displacement: | 2,490 tons |
Length: | 388 ft 9 in (118.5 meters |
Beam: | 35 ft 5 in (10.8 m) |
Draft: | 12 ft 4 in (3.8 m) |
Speed: | 35 knots (65 km/h) |
Complement: | 240 |
Armament: | 6 × 5 in (127 mm) / 50 caliber DP guns, up to 28 × 25 mm AA guns, up to 4 × 13 mm AA guns, 8 × 24 in torpedo tubes, 36 depth charges |
Amatsukaze (天津風? "Heavenly Wind") was a Kagero-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
On 6 April 1945, Amatsukaze was attacked by U.S. Army Air Forces B-25s, six miles east of Amoy ( ). Her crew managed to beach the ship but it later slid back into the sea and sank.
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Kagero-class destroyer |
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