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Tachibana

Class	Tachibana class
Type	Destroyer (DD)
Builder	Yokosuka Naval Arsenal
Launched	1944-10-14
Commissioned	1945-01-20
Fate	Sunk. 14 July 1945 off Hakodate, by American carrier aircraft. Not credited to one plane.
Armament (class)	Further-simplified Matsu. One twin mount forward, one single aft, one funnel.
Command	Hayashi, Toshifusa Commanding officer from 20 January 1945; Survived her loss on 14 July 1945

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.

Tachibana-class destroyer. Yokosuka Naval Arsenal.

The pictures on this page are the originals.