Japanese destroyer Fubuki

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Fubuki
Career
Laid down: June 19, 1926
Launched: November 15, 1927
Commissioned: August 10, 1928
Status: Sunk in the Battle of Cape Esperance on October 11, 1942
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

Fubuki (吹雪) was a Fubuki-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was sunk in Ironbottom Sound during the Battle of Cape Esperance in World War II.

Commanding Officers

Chief Equipping Officer - Cmdr. Tokujiro Yokoyama - 1 February 1928 - 10 July 1928

Cmdr. Tokujiro Yokoyama - 10 July 1928 - 10 December 1928

Cmdr. Yuzo Ishido - 10 December 1928 - 30 November 1929

Lt. Cmdr. Tsutatsu Higuchi - 30 November 1929 - 31 October 1931

Cmdr. Keizo Sato - 31 October 1931 - 1 July 1932

Cmdr. Hachiro Naotsuka - 1 July 1932 - 15 November 1933

Lt. Cmdr. / Cmdr. Yasuji Hirai - 15 November 1933 - 15 October 1935 (Promoted to Commander on 15 November 1934.)

Cmdr. Torajiro Sato - 15 October 1935 - 9 November 1935

Cmdr. Hironosuke Ueda - 9 November 1935 - 15 November 1936

Lt. Cmdr. / Cmdr. Kiyoto Kagawa - 15 November 1936 - 15 November 1937 (Promoted to Commander on 1 December 1936.)

Lt. Cmdr. Tomozo Fujita - 15 November 1937 - 4 February 1938

Lt. Cmdr. Tatsutaro Yamada - 4 February 1938 - 15 November 1938

Lt. Cmdr. Tsuneo Orita - 15 November 1938 - 15 December 1938

Cmdr. Kiichiro Wakida - 15 December 1938 - 10 October 1939

Lt. Cmdr. Shizuo Okayama - 10 October 1939 - 15 October 1940

Lt. Cmdr. Shizuo Yamashita - 15 October 1940 - 11 October 1942 (KIA)

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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


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