Japanese destroyer Okinami

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Career Japanese Navy Ensign
Ordered:
Laid down:
Launched:
Completed: 10 December 1943
Commissioned:
Decommissioned:
Fate: Sunk, 13 November 1944
Struck: 10 January 1945
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

For other uses see Okinami (disambiguation)

Okinami (沖波? "High Seas Waves") was a Yugumo-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

On 13 November 1944, Okinami was sunk in a U.S. air raid on Manila. Suffering one direct bomb hit and several near-misses; she sank upright in shallow water eight miles (15 km) west of Manila (14°35′N, 120°50′E).

Commanding Officers

Chief Equipping Officer - Cmdr. Hiroshi Makino - 6 November 1943 - 10 December 1943

Cmdr. Hiroshi Makino - 10 December 1943 - 13 November 1944


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