Japanese destroyer Niizuki

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Career Japanese Navy Ensign
Ordered:
Laid down:
Launched:
Completed: 31 March 1943
Commissioned:
Fate: Sunk in action, 6 July 1943
Struck: 10 September 1943
General Characteristics
Displacement: 2,700 tons standard;
3,700 tons full load
Length: 440 ft 3 in (134.2 meters
Beam: 38 ft 1 in (11.6 m)
Draft: 13 ft 7 in (4.5 m)
Speed: 33 knots (61 km/h)
Complement: 300
Armament: 8 × 100 mm / 65 cal DP guns,
up to 51 × 25 mm AA guns,
4 × 610 mm Type 93 torpedo tubes,
72 depth charges

Niizuki was a Akizuki-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her name means "New Moon".

On the night of 56 July 1943, Niizuki led a troop transport run to Kolombangara. In the Battle of Kula Gulf, she was sunk by gunfire of a U.S. cruiser-destroyer group, five miles east of Kolombangara (7°57′S 157°12′E).


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Akizuki-class destroyer

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List of ships of the Japanese Navy