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Nowaki

IJN Nowaki

Sunk

Imperial Japanese Navy

TypeDestroyer
ClassKagerō
WarSecond World War
Main guns6 × 127 mm (5.0 in)/50 caliber DP guns

Picked up the survivors of the cruiser Chikuma after the action off Samar, and was caught by American cruisers and destroyers that night, 25/26 October 1944; no one survived.

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

Armament and specifications

Armament

  • 6 × 127 mm (5.0 in)/50 caliber DP guns
  • up to 28 × Type 96 25 mm (0.98 in) AA guns
  • up to 4 × 13.2 mm (0.52 in) AA guns
  • 8 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes
  • 36 depth charges
BuilderMaizuru Naval Arsenal
Laid down8 November 1939
Launched17 September 1940
Commissioned28 April 1941
Displacement2,490 long tons (2,530 t)
Length118.5 m (388 ft 9 in)
Speed35.5 knots (40.9 mph; 65.7 km/h)
Complement240

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

Career

She isn't listed in any of the fleet actions covered here.

Launched

17 September 1940