Japanese destroyer Suzunami

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Career Japanese Navy Ensign
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Completed: 27 July 1943
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Fate: Sunk 11 November 1943
Struck: 5 January 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

Suzunami (涼波? "Breaking Waves") was a Yugumo-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

On 11 November 1943, Suzunami was sunk in a U.S. carrier air raid on Rabaul, New Britain. Reportedly she took a direct bomb hit while loading torpedoes near mouth of Rabaul Harbor (04°13′S 152°11′E). She blew up and sank; 148 were killed including Commander Kamiyama.


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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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