Japanese destroyer Makinami

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Career Japanese Navy Ensign
Ordered:
Laid down:
Launched:
Completed: 18 August 1942
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Decommissioned:
Fate: Sunk in action,
25 November 1943
Struck: 10 February 1944
General Characteristics
Displacement: 2,520 tons
Length: 390 ft 11 in (109.5 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

Makinami (巻波?) was a Yugumo-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her name means "Overflowing Waves" (Rolling Wave).

On the night of 24 November25 November 1943, Makinami was on a troop evacuation run to Buka Island when she was sunk in the Battle of Cape St. George. After being crippled by a torpedo from USS Charles Ausburne (DD-570), USS Claxton (DD-571) or USS Dyson (DD-572), she was finished off by gunfire of USS Converse (DD-509) and USS Spence (DD-512), 55 miles (100 km) east-southeast of Cape St. George (05°14′S 153°50′E).


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Yugumo-class destroyer

Yugumo | Kazagumo | Makigumo | Makinami | Takanami | Naganami | Tamanami | Suzunami | Onami | Fujinami | Kishinami | Hayanami | Kiyonami | Okinami | Hamanami | Asashimo | Kiyoshimo | Hayashimo | Akishimo

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