Japanese destroyer Arashio

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The Arahio
Career Japanese Navy Ensign
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Fate: Sunk in action,
4 March 1943
Struck: 1 April 1943
General Characteristics
Displacement: 2,370 tons
Length: 388 ft (118.3 m)
Beam: 33 ft 11 in (10.3 m)
Draft: 12 ft 1 in (3.7 m)
Speed: 35 knots (65 km/h)
Complement: 200
Armament: 6 × 5 in (127 mm) / 50 cal DP guns,
up to 28 × 25 mm AA guns,
up to 4 × 13 mm AA guns,
8 × 24 in torpedo tubes,
36 depth charges

Arashio was a Asashio-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her name means "Rough Sea Flood" (Tide).

On 3 March 1943, Arashio escorted a troop convoy from Rabaul towards Lae. In the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, the convoy was hit by devastating Allied air attacks. Arashio, after being hit early by three bombs, went out of control and rammed Nojima. Yukikaze later rescued 176 survivors, and the abandoned hulk was sunk 4 March by Allied aircraft, 55 miles (100 km) southeast of Finschhafen, New Guinea (07°15′S 148°15′E).


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Asashio-class destroyer

Asashio | Oshio | Michishio | Arashio | Natsugumo | Yamagumo | Minegumo | Asagumo | Arare | Kasumi

List of ships of the Japanese Navy