Japanese destroyer Takanami (1942)

Career
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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