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Name: | Takanami |
Completed: | 31 August 1942 |
Struck: | 24 December 1942 |
Fate: | Sunk, 30 November 1942 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Yūgumo-class destroyer |
Displacement: | 2,520 long tons (2,560 t) |
Length: | 119.15 m (390 ft 11 in) |
Beam: | 10.8 m (35 ft 5 in) |
Draught: | 3.75 m (12 ft 4 in) |
Speed: | 35 kn (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
Complement: | 228 |
Armament: | 6 × 127 mm (5.0 in)/50 cal dual purpose guns up to 28 × 25 mm (0.98 in) anti-aircraft guns up to 4 × 13 mm (0.51 in) anti-aircraft guns 8 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes for Type 93 torpedoes 36 × depth charges |
Takanami (高波 ) was a Yūgumo-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 United States Navy task group in the Battle of Tassafaronga. Takanami torpedoed the heavy cruisers USS Minneapolis and New Orleans. She was sunk by enemy gunfire — largely from Minneapolis — several miles south-southwest of Savo Island (), with 197 killed.
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