Japanese destroyer Asashimo

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Career Japanese Navy Ensign
Ordered:
Laid down:
Launched:
Completed: 27 November 1943
Commissioned:
Fate: Sunk in action, 7 April 1945
Struck: 10 May 1945
General Characteristics
Displacement: 2,520 tons
Length: 390 ft 11 in (119.3 m)
Beam: 35 ft 5 in (10.0 m)
Draft: 12 ft 4 in (3.0 m)
Speed: 35 knots (65 km/h)
Complement: 228
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 × 610 mm Type 93 torpedo tubes,
36 depth charges

Asashimo (朝霜? "Morning Frost") was a Yugumo-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy.


On 6 April 1945, Asashimo escorted the battleship Yamato from the Inland Sea on attack mission towards Okinawa. She was sunk on 7 April by aircraft of Task Force 58, after falling astern of the Yamato task force due to engine troubles, 150 miles (275 km) southwest of Nagasaki (31° N 128° E).


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Yugumo-class destroyer

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