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Kishinami

Class	Yugumo class
Type	Destroyer (DD)
Builder	Uraga Dock Company
Launched	1943-08-19
Commissioned	1943-12-03
Fate	Sunk. Torpedoed W of Palawan Island, 4 December 1944
Armament (class)	Repeat of the Kagero. Three twin mounts, two funnels, and two banks of tubes.
Command	Mifune, Toshiro Captain from 3 December 1943; In command when she was lost, 4 December 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.

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.

The pictures on this page are the originals.