Japanese destroyer Asashio (1936)
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For other ships with the same name, see Japanese ship Asashio.
Asashio (朝潮, "Morning Tide")[1] was the lead ship of the ten Asashio-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the mid-1930s under the Circle Two Program (Maru Ni Keikaku).
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Asashio underway in July 1937. | |
History | |
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Empire of Japan | |
Name | Asashio |
Ordered | 1934 |
Builder | Sasebo Naval Arsenal |
Laid down | 7 September 1935 |
Launched | 16 December 1936 |
Commissioned | 31 August 1937 |
Stricken | 1 April 1943 |
Fate | Sunk by air attack in Battle of the Bismarck Sea, 3 March 1943 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Asashio-class destroyer |
Displacement | 2,370 long tons (2,408 t) |
Length |
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Beam | 10.3 m (33 ft 10 in) |
Draft | 3.7 m (12 ft 2 in) |
Propulsion | |
Speed | 35 knots (40 mph; 65 km/h) |
Range | 5,700 nmi (10,600 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h) |
Complement | 226 |
Armament | 6 × 12.7 cm/50 Type 3 naval guns DP guns (3×2), (early) 3 × (later) up to 28 × Type 96 25 mm AT/AA Gun, up to 4 × Type 93 13 mm machine guns, 8 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes (2×4), 36 depth charges |
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