Japanese destroyer Okinami
- Japanese destroyer Okinami
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| Career |
 |
| Name: |
Okinami |
| Completed: |
10 December 1943 |
| Struck: |
10 January 1945 |
| Fate: |
Sunk in action, 13 November 1944 |
| General characteristics |
| Class and type: |
Yūgumo-class destroyer |
| Displacement: |
2,520 long tons (2,560 t) |
| Length: |
119.15 m (390 ft 11 in) |
| Beam: |
10.8 m (35 ft 5 in) |
| Draught: |
3.75 m (12 ft 4 in) |
| Speed: |
35 knots (40 mph; 65 km/h) |
| Complement: |
228 |
| Armament: |
• 6 × 127 mm (5.0 in)/50 caliber DP guns
• up to 28 × 25 mm (0.98 in) AA guns
• up to 4 × 13 mm (0.51 in) AA guns
• 8 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes for Type 93 torpedoes
• 36 depth charges |
Okinami (沖波?, "High Seas Waves") was a Yūgumo-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
On 13 November 1944, Okinami was sunk in a U.S. air raid on Manila. Suffering one direct bomb hit and several near-misses; she sank upright in shallow water eight miles (15 km) west of Manila (14°35′N 120°50′E / 14.583°N 120.833°E / 14.583; 120.833).
See also
External links
Categories:
- Yūgumo class destroyers
- World War II destroyers of Japan
- Ships sunk by aircraft
- Shipwrecks in the Philippine Sea
- 1943 ships
- Japan naval ship stubs
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