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Fujinami

Class	Yugumo class
Type	Destroyer (DD)
Builder	Fujinagata Shipyards
Launched	1943-04-20
Commissioned	1943-07-31
Fate	Sunk. Air attack N of Iloilo, 27 October 1944
Armament (class)	Repeat of the Kagero. Three twin mounts, two funnels, and two banks of tubes.
Command	Matsuzaki, Tatsuji Captain from 31 July 1943; In command when she was lost, 27 October 1944

Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.

The armament line is the class drawing, not a measurement of this hull.

Diagram of the class, not a photograph of this ship — No photograph of this ship. This is a diagram of the Yugumo class, not a picture of her.

Fujinami was a Yugumo-class destroyer, built at Fujinagata, launched on 20 April 1943 and commissioned on 31 July 1943. No photograph that shows her, and only her, has been found.

On 25 October 1944 she was in Kurita's screen off Samar. She was not sunk that day. Chokai was disabled in the same fight and lost before the day ended. That loss is not pinned to one American ship, and it is not pinned to Fujinami.

On 27 October American aircraft sank her north of Iloilo. Not credited to one plane.

The pictures on this page are the originals.