Japanese destroyer Tamanami

Career
Name: Tamanami
Completed: 30 April 1943
Struck: 10 September 1944
Fate: Sunk, 7 July 1944
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)
Draft: 3.75 m (12 ft 4 in)
Propulsion: Steam engine(s)
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 × 13.2 mm (0.52 in) AA guns
•8 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes for Type 93 torpedoes
•36 × depth charges

Tamanami (玉波?, "High Climbing Waves") was a Yūgumo-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

On 7 July 1944, Tamanami was escorting the tanker Kokuyo Maru from Singapore towards Manila, Philippines. She was torpedoed by USS Mingo (SS-261), 280 km (170 mi) west-southwest of Manila (). Tamanami blew up and sank with all hands.

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