Kishinami was a Yugumo-class destroyer, built at Uraga, launched on 19 August 1943 and commissioned on 3 December 1943. No photograph of this hull has been found.
On 25 October 1944 she was in Kurita's screen off Samar. She was not sunk that day.
On 4 December 1944 an American submarine torpedoed her west of Palawan. She sank. The submarine is not known. She was not lost off Samar.