IJN · DD
SunkMutsuki-class destroyer. She covered the Guam, Kavieng and northern Solomons landings and was torpedoed at Tulagi on 4 May 1942 by aircraft from USS Yorktown, early in the Coral Sea operation. She sank the next day.
| Class | Mutsuki class |
|---|---|
| Type | Destroyer (DD) |
| Builder | Maizuru Naval Arsenal |
| Launched | 1926-05-15 |
| Commissioned | 1926-11-20 |
| Fate | Sunk. Torpedoed by aircraft from USS Yorktown at Tulagi on 4 May 1942 and beached at Gavutu. She slid back into the water and sank on 5 May. Twelve of her crew were killed and 22 injured. |
| Armament (class) | Four single guns and two funnels. All of them were lost. |
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.
Kikuzuki, photographed in October 1932. Photo from the Kure Maritime Museum's destroyer album (Todaka, ed.). Wikimedia Commons File:Kikuzuki II.jpg. Public domain.
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Battle of the Coral Sea
1942-05-08 · torpedoed by Yorktown aircraft at Tulagi on 4 May 1942; sank on 5 May
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