Japanese destroyer Suzunami (1943)
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Name: | Suzunami |
Completed: | 27 July 1943 |
Struck: | 5 January 1944 |
Fate: | Sunk, 11 November 1943 |
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 knots (40 mph; 65 km/h) |
Complement: | 228 |
Armament: | • 6 × 127 mm (5.0 in)/50 caliber DP guns • up to 28 × 25 mm (0.98 in) AA guns • up to 4 × 13 mm (0.51 in) AA guns • 8 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes for Type 93 torpedoes • 36 depth charges |
Suzunami (涼波, "Breaking Waves") was a Yūgumo-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
On 11 November 1943, Suzunami was sunk in a U.S. carrier air raid on Rabaul, New Britain. Reportedly she took a direct bomb hit while loading torpedoes near mouth of Rabaul Harbor (04°13′S 152°11′E / 4.217°S 152.183°E). She blew up and sank; 148 were killed including Commander Kamiyama.
See also
- List of World War II ships
- List of ships of the Japanese Navy
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