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Japanese destroyer Yamagumo (1937)
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For other ships with the same name, see Japanese destroyer Yamagumo.
Yamagumo (山雲, Mountain Cloud)[1] was the sixth of ten Asashio-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the mid-1930s under the Circle Two Supplementary Naval Expansion Program (Maru Ni Keikaku).
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Name | Yamagumo |
Ordered | 1934 Maru-2 Program |
Builder | Fujinagata Shipyards |
Laid down | 4 November 1936 |
Launched | 24 July 1937 |
Commissioned | 15 January 1938 |
Stricken | 10 January 1945 |
Fate | Sunk in action, 25 October 1944 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Asashio-class destroyer |
Displacement | 2,370 long tons (2,408 t) |
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Beam | 10.3 m (33 ft 10 in) |
Draft | 3.7 m (12 ft 2 in) |
Propulsion | 2-shaft geared turbine, 3 boilers, 50,000 shp (37,285 kW) |
Speed | 35 knots (40 mph; 65 km/h) |
Range | |
Complement | 200 |
Armament |
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