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Asashio

IJN Asashio

Sunk

Imperial Japanese Navy

TypeDestroyer
ClassAsashio
WarSecond World War
Main guns6 × 5″ guns in 3 twin mounts

Torpedoed Piet Hein and fought off the Allied cruisers at Badung Strait. Sunk in the Bismarck Sea in 1943.

Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Asashio, the second Japanese warship to bear that name. Photo: Shizuo Fukui, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

  • 6 × 12.7 cm/50 Type 3 naval guns DP guns (3×2), (early) 3 × (later) up to 28 × Type 96 25 mm AT/AA Gun, up to 4 × Type 93 13 mm machine guns, 8 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes (2×4), 36 depth charges
BuilderSasebo Naval Arsenal
Laid down7 September 1935
Launched16 December 1936
Commissioned31 August 1937
Displacement2,370 long tons (2,408 t)
Length111 m (364 ft) pp 115 m (377 ft 4 in) waterline
Speed35 knots (40 mph; 65 km/h)
Complement226

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

Career

Launched

16 December 1936

Battle of Badung Strait
Survived

19–20 February 1942

Fate

Sunk

Sunk by air attack in Battle of the Bismarck Sea, 3 March 1943