IJN · DD
Yunagi
Photos and infoKamikaze-class destroyer. Her own record puts her with the Gilberts invasion on 8-10 December 1941 and with the second landing at Wake on 23 December, not in the 11 December bombardment. At Savo Island she was last in the column. She dropped back and traded shots with the already-crippled Jarvis. Neither ship was sunk in that pass. USS Picuda sank her on 25 August 1944, north of Cape Bojeador.
| Class | Kamikaze class |
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| Type | Destroyer (DD) |
| Fate | Sunk. With the Gilberts invasion on 8-10 December 1941, and with the second Wake landing on 23 December. Not in the 11 December bombardment. Last in the Savo Island column, and not sunk that night. USS Picuda sank her on 25 August 1944, north-northeast of Cape Bojeador, Luzon. |
| Armament (class) | Follow-on to the Minekaze class. Four single guns and two funnels. |
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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.
Shizuo Fukui. Japanese destroyer Yunagi on 5 September 1936.jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The pictures on this page are the originals.
No color version yet. Colored pictures and film will be added here.
Command
Battle of Wake Island
1941-12-11 · Gilberts on 8-10 December; second landing on 23 December
Battle of Savo Island
1942-08-09 · dropped back; not sunk
