Japanese destroyer Oyashio

Oyashio in 1943
History
Empire of Japan
Name:	Oyashio
Ordered:	Maizuru Naval Arsenal
Laid down:	29 March 1938
Launched:	29 November 1938
Completed:	20 August 1940
Struck:	20 June 1943
Fate:	Sunk in action, 8 May 1943
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)
Propulsion:	3 × Kampon water tube boilers 2 × Kanpon impulse turbines 2 × shafts, 52,000 shp (39 MW)
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
Armament:	(1939) 6 × 12.7 cm/50 Type 3 DP guns 2 × Type 96 25 mm AA guns 8 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes 18 depth charges 2 × paravanes (1943) 6 × 12.7 cm/50 Type 3 DP guns 8 × Type 96 25 mm AA guns 8 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes 18 depth charges

Oyashio (親潮, lit. Father Current, from Oyashio Current^?) was the fourth 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).

The Kagerō-class destroyers were outwardly almost identical to the preceding light cruiser-sized Asashio class, with improvements made by Japanese naval architects to improve stability and to take advantage of Japan’s lead in torpedo technology. They were designed 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, only one survived the Pacific War.

Oyashio, built at the Maizuru Naval Arsenal, was laid down on 29 March 1938, launched on 29 November 1938 and commissioned on 20 August 1940.

At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Oyashio, was assigned to Destroyer Division 15 (Desdiv 15), and a member of Destroyer Squadron 2 (Desron 2) of the IJN 2nd Fleet, and had deployed from Palau, as part of the escort for the aircraft carrier Ryūjō in the invasion of the southern Philippines and minelayer Itsukushima.

...
Wikipedia