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Suzutsuki

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TypeDestroyer (DD)
FateAfloat. In Yamato's screen on 7 April 1945. Not sunk. Survived the war.
Command

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

Suzutsuki
戦後、佐世保相ノ浦港で撮影された凉月. Public domain.

Suzutsuki was a destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. In the spring of 1945 she kept station in the screen of the battleship Yamato.

Captain Toshio Hirayama took command on 10 March 1945. He was her captain when she went with Yamato the following month. On 1 April 1945, at Okinawa, Suzutsuki was in Yamato's screen. She remained afloat.

On 7 April 1945 she was in that screen for Operation Ten-Go. Yamato's force was on the way to Okinawa, and Suzutsuki was with it. She came through Operation Ten-Go afloat. The day left her still serving in Yamato's screen.

Suzutsuki survived the war. The hull that had screened Yamato on 7 April 1945, on the way to Okinawa, was still in existence when the war ended.

The pictures on this page are the originals.