Japanese destroyer Usugumo

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Usugumo
Career
Laid down:
Launched:
Struck: 10 September 1944
Status: Sunk in action, 5 July 1944
General Characteristics
Displacement: 2,050 tons
Length: 378 ft 3 in (115.3 m)
Beam: 34 ft (10.4 m)
Draft: 10 ft 6 in (3.2 m)
Propulsion: 4 × Kampon type boilers,
2 × Parsons geared turbines,
2 × shafts at 50,000 shp (37 MW)
Speed: 38 knots (70 km/h)
Range: 5,000 nm at 14 knots
(9,200 km at 26 km/h)
Complement: 197
Armament: 6 × 5 inch (127 mm) / 50 caliber guns
  (3 × 2-gun turrets),
up to 22 × 25 mm AA guns,
up to 10 × 13 mm AA guns,
9 × 610 mm torpedo tubes,
36 × depth charges

Usugumo was a Fubuki-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her name means "Thin Misty Clouds".

On 2 July 1944, Usugumo departed Otaru, Hokkaido, escorting a convoy towards Kuriles. On 5 July, she was torpedoed by USS Skate (SS-305) in the Sea of Okhotsk, 330 miles (610 km) west-southwest of Paramushiro (47°43′N 147°55′E). Two torpedoes broke her back; she sank in six minutes, leaving no survivors.

On 10 September 1944, Usugumo was removed from the Navy List.


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Fubuki-class destroyer

Type I (Fubuki)
Fubuki | Shirayuki | Hatsuyuki | Miyuki | Murakumo | Shinonome | Usugumo | Shirakumo | Isonami | Uranami

Type II (Ayanami)
Ayanami | Shikinami | Asagiri | Yugiri | Amagiri | Sagiri | Oboro | Akebono | Sazanami | Ushio

List of ships of the Japanese Navy