WL410 YUGUMO

Yugumo was a Japanese destroyer whose keel was laid in 1940, launched in March 1941, and commissioned in the Imperial Japanese Navy in December 1941. The length of the ship at the time of launching was 119 m, width 10.8 m, and the actual full displacement - 2,520 tons. Destroyer Yugumo's top speed was up to 35.5 knots. The main armament at the time of the launch was 6 127 mm guns in three twin turrets, and the secondary armament was 4 25 mm cannons, depth charge launchers and eight 610 mm torpedo tubes with eight spare torpedoes. The Yugumo was the first destroyer of the type with the same name - the Yugumo. Units of this type were created as part of the 1939 and 1941 Japanese fleet expansion program. Units of this class were in fact an improved Kagero type: they were slightly larger, with new main artillery turrets and an extended stern. The stock of depth charges was also increased. However, they had the same engine room, similar ship layout, and identical main and torpedo armaments. The weak anti-aircraft armament, which was systematically strengthened during the war in the Pacific, was still a drawback. The first major battle in which destroyer Yugumo took part in World War II was the Battle of Midway (June 1942), where she was part of the Japanese carrier's protection team. From the second half of 1942, Yugumo served in the area of the Solomon Islands archipelago, fighting in the struggle for Guadalcanal, taking part in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands (October 1942) there. The ship also took part in the evacuation of Japanese troops from Gudalcanal in February 1943, from Kolombangary Island in October of the same year. Destroyer Yugumo was sunk shortly after this last action - in the battle of Vella Lavella on October 7, 1943.