Japanese destroyer Niizuki

Japanese destroyer Niizuki
Career Japanese Navy Ensign
Name: Niizuki
Builder: Mitsubishi Nagasaki Shipyard
Laid down: 8 December 1941
Launched: 29 June 1942
Completed: 31 March 1943
Commissioned: 31 March 1943, 11th Destroyer Squadron
Struck: 10 September 1943
Fate: Sunk in action, 6 July 1943
General characteristics
Class and type: Akizuki-class destroyer
Displacement: 2,700 long tons (2,743 t) standard
3,700 long tons (3,759 t) full load
Length: 134.2 m (440 ft 3 in)
Beam: 11.6 m (38 ft 1 in)
Draft: 4.15 m (13 ft 7 in)
Propulsion: 4 × Kampon type boilers
2 × Parsons geared turbines
2 × shafts, 50,000 shp (37 MW)
Speed: 33 knots (38 mph; 61 km/h)
Range: 8,300 nmi (15,400 km) at 18 kn (21 mph; 33 km/h)
Complement: 263
Armament: • 8 × 100 mm (4 in)/65 cal DP guns
• 12 × 25 mm AA guns (3×4)
• 4 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes for Type 93 torpedoes
• 54 × depth charges

Niizuki (新月?, "New Moon") was an Akizuki-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

On the night of 4–5 July 1943, Niizuki led a troop transport run to Kolombangara. With her radar she detected U.S. ships in Kula Gulf, and she, along with Yūnagi and Nagatsuki, fired a salvo of torpedoes, which sank USS Strong (DD-467).

On the night of 5–6 July 1943, Niizuki led another troop transport run to Kolombangara. In the Battle of Kula Gulf, she was sunk by gunfire of a U.S. cruiser-destroyer group, five miles (8 km) east of Kolombangara (7°57′S 157°12′E / 7.95°S 157.2°E / -7.95; 157.2Coordinates: 7°57′S 157°12′E / 7.95°S 157.2°E / -7.95; 157.2).

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