For other ships with the same name, see Japanese ship Oyashio.
Oyashio in 1943
History
Empire of Japan
Name
Oyashio
Builder
Maizuru Naval Arsenal
Laid down
29 March 1938
Launched
29 November 1938
Completed
20 August 1940
Stricken
20 June 1943
Fate
Sunk in action, 8 May 1943
General characteristics
Class and type
Kagerō-class destroyer
Displacement
2,033 long tons (2,066 t) standard
Length
118.5 m (388 ft 9 in)
Beam
10.8 m (35 ft 5 in)
Draft
3.8 m (12 ft 6 in)
Propulsion
3 × Kampon water tube boilers
2 × Kanpon impulse turbines
2 × shafts, 52,000 shp (39 MW)
Speed
35.5 knots (40.9 mph; 65.7 km/h)
Range
5,000 NM at 18 knots (21 mph; 33 km/h)
Complement
239
Armament
(1939)
6 × 12.7 cm/50 Type 3 DP guns
2 × Type 96 25 mm AA guns
8 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes
18 depth charges
2 × paravanes
(1943)
6 × 12.7 cm/50 Type 3 DP guns
8 × Type 96 25 mm AA guns
8 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes
18 depth charges
Oyashio (親潮, lit. Father Current, from Oyashio Current)[1] was the fourth vessel to be commissioned in the 19-vessel Kagerō-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the late 1930s under the Circle Three Supplementary Naval Expansion Program (Maru San Keikaku).
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