Japanese destroyer Asashio (1936)
Asashio underway in July 1937. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| 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 & 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 |
Asashio (朝潮; "Morning Tide") 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).