Japanese destroyer Takanami (1942)

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Career Japanese Navy Ensign
Ordered:
Laid down:
Launched:
Completed: 31 August 1942
Commissioned:
Decommissioned:
Fate: Sunk in action,
30 November 1942
Struck: 24 December 1942
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

Takanami (高波?) was a Yugumo-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her name means "Pearly Waves" (High Wave?).

On 30 November 1942, Takanami was on a supply transport run to Guadalcanal, when her task group engaged a U.S. cruiser-destroyer group in the Battle of Tassafaronga. Takanami torpedoed USS Minneapolis (CA-36) and USS New Orleans (CA-32). She was sunk by enemy gunfire, several miles south-southwest of Savo Island, with 197 killed.


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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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