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Akigumo

IJN Akigumo

Sunk

Imperial Japanese Navy

TypeDestroyer
ClassKagerō
WarSecond World War
Main guns6 × 5″ guns

With Makigumo, sank the abandoned Hornet at Santa Cruz.

Imperial Japanese Navy Destroyer Akigumo. Photo: Unknown photographer, Imperial Japanese Navy photos. Courtesy by Takashi Tateyama (Editor-in-Chief of Glorious Destroyer Akigumo published by Destroyer Akigumo Association)., Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

  • 6 × 12.7 cm (5 in) guns
  • 2 × twin 25 mm (1 in) AA guns
  • up to 4 × 13.2 mm (0.52 in) AA guns
  • 8 × 61 cm (24 in) torpedo tubes
  • 36 depth charges
  • (1944)
  • 4 × 12.7 cm (5 in) guns
  • Up to 28 25 mm (1 in) AA guns
BuilderUraga Dock Company
Laid down2 July 1940
Launched11 April 1941
Commissioned27 September 1941
Displacement2,490 long tons (2,530 t)
Length118.5 m (388 ft 9 in)
Speed35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph)
Complement240

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched

11 April 1941

25–27 October 1942

Sank Hornet

Fate

Sunk

Torpedoed and sunk, 11 April 1944