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Natsugumo

IJN Natsugumo

Sunk

Imperial Japanese Navy

TypeDestroyer
ClassAsashio
WarSecond World War
Main guns6 × 5″ guns

Sent back with Murakumo after Cape Esperance and sunk by aircraft.

Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Natsugumo Photo: Shizuo Fukui, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

  • 6 × 12.7 cm/50 Type 3 DP guns
  • up to 28 × Type 96 AA guns
  • up to 4 × Type 93 AA guns
  • 8 × 24 in (610 mm) torpedo tubes
  • 36 depth charges
BuilderSasebo Naval Arsenal
Laid down1 July 1936
Launched26 May 1937
Commissioned10 February 1938
Displacement2,370 long tons (2,408 t)
Length111 m (364 ft) pp 115 m (377 ft 4 in)waterline 118.3 m (388 ft 1 in) OA
Speed35 knots (40 mph; 65 km/h)
Complement200

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

Career

Launched

26 May 1937

Battle of Cape Esperance
Sunk

11–12 October 1942

Sunk by aircraft the next day