Japanese destroyer Suzunami (1943)

Career
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.

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