Japanese destroyer Asashimo

Career
Ordered:
Laid down:
Launched:
Completed:	27 November 1943
Commissioned:
Fate:	Sunk in action, 7 April 1945
Struck:	10 May 1945
General characteristics
Displacement:	2,520 tons
Length:	390 ft 11 in (119.3 m)
Beam:	35 ft 5 in (10.0 m)
Draft:	12 ft 4 in (3.0 m)
Speed:	35 knots (65 km/h)
Complement:	228
Armament:	6 × 5 in (127 mm) / 50 caliber DP guns, up to 28 × 25 mm AA guns, up to 4 × 13 mm AA guns, 8 × 610 mm Type 93 torpedo tubes, 36 depth charges

Asashimo (朝霜, Asashimo^? "Morning Frost") was a Yugumo-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

On 6 April 1945, Asashimo escorted the battleship Yamato from the Inland Sea on attack mission towards Okinawa. She was sunk with all hands on 7 April by aircraft of Task Force 58, after falling astern of the Yamato task force due to engine troubles, 150 miles (275 km) southwest of Nagasaki (31° N 128° E).

Commanding Officers

Chief Equipping Officer - Cmdr. Nisaburou Maekawa - 1 November 1943 - 27 November 1943

Cmdr. Nisaburou Maekawa - 27 November 1943 - 27 January 1944

Lt. Cmdr. / Capt.* Yoshirou Sugihara - 27 January 1944 - 7 April 1945 (KIA; posthumous 2-rank promotion.)

[edit] See also

v • d • e Yugumo-class destroyer

Yugumo \| Kazagumo \| Makigumo \| Makinami \| Takanami \| Naganami \| Tamanami \| Suzunami \| Onami \| Fujinami \| Kishinami \| Hayanami \| Kiyonami \| Okinami \| Hamanami \| *Asashimo* \| Kiyoshimo \| Hayashimo \| Akishimo

List of ships of the Japanese Navy