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Ōshio

IJN Ōshio

Sunk

Imperial Japanese Navy

TypeDestroyer
ClassAsashio
WarSecond World War
Main guns6 × 12.7 cm/50 Type 3 DP guns

Damaged at Badung Strait. Sunk by a US submarine in 1943.

Ohshio, Asashio class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy, maybe on trial run. Photo: unknown, maybe Imperial Japanese Navy., Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

  • 6 × 12.7 cm/50 Type 3 DP guns
  • 4 × Type 96 AA guns OR
  • 4 × Type 93 AA guns (records uncertain)
  • 8 × 24 in (610 mm) torpedo tubes
  • 36 depth charges
BuilderMaizuru Naval Arsenal
Laid down5 August 1936
Launched19 April 1937
Commissioned31 October 1937
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

19 April 1937

19–20 February 1942

Fate

Sunk

Torpedoed and sunk, 20 February 1943