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Takanami

Class	Yugumo class
Type	Destroyer (DD)
Builder	Uraga Dock Company
Launched	1942-03-16
Commissioned	1942-08-31
Fate	Sunk. Battle of Tassafaronga, 30 November 1942
Armament (class)	Repeat of the Kagero. Three twin mounts, two funnels, and two banks of tubes.
Command	Ogura, Masami Captain from 31 August 1942

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.

Takanami was a Yugumo-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy, built by the Uraga Dock Company. The yard launched her on 16 March 1942. She was commissioned on 31 August 1942.

Masami Ogura became her captain on 31 August 1942, the day she entered service, and he was still in command when she was lost.

On 30 November 1942 she fought in the Battle of Tassafaronga, stationed out ahead of Tanaka's line. American cruiser gunfire sank her there.

The loss is credited to that cruiser gunfire, with no one ship named for the kill. Takanami went down on 30 November 1942 in the Battle of Tassafaronga.

The pictures on this page are the originals.