Japanese destroyer Natsushio
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For other ships with the same name, see Japanese ship Natsushio.
Natsushio (夏潮, lit. “Summer Tide”) [1] was the sixth vessel to be commissioned in the 19-vessel Kagerō-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the late-1930s under the Circle Three Supplementary Naval Expansion Program (Maru San Keikaku).
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Launching of Natsushio, 23 February 1939 | |
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Empire of Japan | |
Name | Natsushio |
Ordered | Fujinagata Shipyards |
Builder | Fujinagata Shipyards, Osaka |
Laid down | 9 December 1937 |
Launched | 23 February 1939 |
Completed | 31 August 1940 |
Stricken | 28 February 1942 |
Fate | Torpedoed and sunk by USS S-37, 9 February 1942 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Kagerō-class destroyer |
Displacement | 2,033 long tons (2,066 t) standard |
Length | 118.5 m (388 ft 9 in) |
Beam | 10.8 m (35 ft 5 in) |
Draft | 3.8 m (12 ft 6 in) |
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Speed | 35.5 knots (40.9 mph; 65.7 km/h) |
Range | 5,000 NM at 18 knots (21 mph; 33 km/h) |
Complement | 239 |
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