Yūgumo-class destroyer
Kiyoshimo off Uraga on 15 May 1944 | |
| Class overview | |
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| Name | Yūgumo-class destroyer |
| Builders | |
| Operators | Imperial Japanese Navy |
| Preceded by | Kagerō class |
| Succeeded by | |
| Built | 1940–1944 |
| In commission | 1941–1945 |
| Planned | 14 (1939) + 16 (1941) + 8 (1942) |
| Completed | 19 |
| Cancelled | 19 |
| Lost | 19 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement |
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| Length |
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| Beam | 10.80 m (35 ft 5 in) |
| Draft | 3.76 m (12 ft 4 in) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 35.5 knots (40.9 mph; 65.7 km/h) |
| Range | 5,000 nmi (9,300 km) at 18 kn (21 mph; 33 km/h) |
| Complement | 225 (Yūgumo, 1941) |
| Armament |
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The Yūgumo-class destroyers (夕雲型駆逐艦, Yūgumo-gata kuchikukan) were a group of 19 destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. The IJN called them Destroyer Type-A (甲型駆逐艦,, Kō-gata Kuchikukan) from their plan name. No ships of the class survived the war.