Japanese destroyer Suzutsuki

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Career Japanese Navy Ensign
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Completed: 20 December 1942
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Struck: 20 November 1945
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

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

On 6–7 April 1945, Suzutsuki escorted Yamato from the Inland Sea on her attack mission against the Allied forces fighting on Okinawa. She was heavily damaged by aircraft of Task Force 58, but survived and returned to Sasebo.


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Akizuki-class destroyer

Akizuki | Teruzuki | Suzutsuki | Hatsuzuki | Niizuki | Wakatsuki | Shimotsuki | Fuyuzuki | Hanazuki | Yoizuki | Haruzuki | Natsuzuki

List of ships of the Japanese Navy