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Tamanami

IJN Tamanami

Sunk

Imperial Japanese Navy

TypeDestroyer
ClassYūgumo
WarSecond World War
Main guns6 × 5″ guns

Sunk with all hands by USS Mingo off Manila on 7 July 1944.

Imperial Japanese Navy's Yugumo class destroyer Tamanami. Photo taken from Battleship Nagato. This destroyer has often been mislabeled as the Kagero class destroyer Oyashio, even through the funnel stripes don't match, and destroyer division 15 was nowhere near a Nagato class battleship during the t Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

  • 6 × 127 mm (5.0 in)/50 cal dual purpose guns
  • up to 28 × Type 96 25 mm (0.98 in) anti-aircraft guns
  • up to 4 × 13.2 mm (0.52 in) AA guns
  • 8 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes for Type 93 torpedoes
  • 36 × depth charges
BuilderFujinagata Shipyards, Osaka
Laid down16 March 1942
Launched20 December 1942
Displacement2,520 long tons (2,560 t)
Length119.15 m (390 ft 11 in)
Speed35.5 kn (65.7 km/h; 40.9 mph)
Complement228

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

20 December 1942