Japanese destroyer Minegumo (1938)
Minegumo launch on 22 March 1937
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| Name: | Minegumo |
| Ordered: | 1934 Maru-2 Program |
| Builder: | Fujinagata Shipyards |
| Laid down: | 22 March 1937 |
| Launched: | 4 November 1937 |
| Commissioned: | 4 April 1938 |
| Struck: | 1 April 1943 |
| Fate: | Sunk in Battle of Blackett Strait, 5 March 1943 |
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| Class and type: | Asashio-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 2,370 long tons (2,408 t) |
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| Beam: | 10.386 m (34 ft 0.9 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) |
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| Complement: | 230 |
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Minegumo (峯雲 Summit Cloud?) was the eighth 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).
The Asashio-class destroyers were larger and more capable that the preceding Shiratsuyu class, as Japanese naval architects were no longer constrained by the provisions of the London Naval Treaty. These light cruiser-sized vessels were designed to take advantage of Japan’s lead in torpedo technology, and to accompany the Japanese main striking force and in both day and night attacks against the United States Navy as it advanced across the Pacific Ocean, according to Japanese naval strategic projections. Despite being one of the most powerful classes of destroyers in the world at the time of their completion, none survived the Pacific War.
Minegumo, built at the Fujinagata Shipyards in Osaka was laid down on 22 March 1937, launched on 4 November 1937 and commissioned on 4 April 1938.
At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Minegumo, under the command of Lieutenant Commander Suzuki Yasuatsu, was assigned to Destroyer Division 8 (Desdiv 8), and a member of Destroyer Squadron 4 (Desron 4) of the IJN 2nd Fleet, escorting Admiral Nobutake Kondō's Southern Force Main Body out of Mako Guard District as distant cover to the Malaya and Philippines invasion forces in December 1941.
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