Our website is made possible by displaying online advertisements to our visitors.
Please consider supporting us by disabling your ad blocker.
Japanese destroyer Sumire (1921)
&sq=crain_ford&lang=en&file=File:Japanese_destroyer_Kuri_in_1937.jpg) Sister ship Kuri at anchor, 1937
| |
| History | |
|---|---|
 Empire of Japan | |
| Name | Sumire |
| Builder | Ishikawajima, Tokyo |
| Laid down | 24 November 1920 |
| Launched | 14 December 1921 |
| Completed | 31 March 1923 |
| Fate | Decommissioned 1 February 1940; converted to training ship, re-converted to auxiliary ship Mitaka (三高) 23 February 1945; scrapped 1948. |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Type | Momi-class destroyer |
| Displacement | |
| Length | |
| Beam | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
| Draft | 8 ft (2.4 m) |
| Installed power |
|
| Propulsion | 2 shafts; 2 × geared steam turbines |
| Speed | 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph) |
| Range | 3,000 nmi (5,600 km; 3,500 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement | 110 |
| Armament |
|
The Japanese destroyer Sumire (菫) was one of 21 Momi-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the late 1910s. In 1940, she was decommissioned and then converted into a training ship, before later being re-converted into the auxiliary ship Mitaka (三高) on February 23, 1945. She was finally scrapped in 1948.
Previous Page Next Page
