Japanese destroyer Amatsukaze
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| Fate: | Sunk in action, 6 April 1945 |
| Struck: | 10 August 1945 |
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| Displacement: | 2,490 tons |
| Length: | 388 ft 9 in (118.5 meters |
| Beam: | 35 ft 5 in (10.8 m) |
| Draft: | 12 ft 4 in (3.8 m) |
| Speed: | 35 knots (65 km/h) |
| Complement: | 240 |
| Armament: | 6 × 5 in (127 mm) / 50 caliber DP guns, up to 28 × 25 mm AA guns, up to 4 × 13 mm AA guns, 8 × 24 in torpedo tubes, 36 depth charges |
Amatsukaze (天津風? "Heavenly Wind") was a Kagero-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. During the first year of the Pacific War, the destroyer was under the command of Tameichi Hara and participated in the Battle of the Java Sea, Battle of the Eastern Solomons, Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, and the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, in which the ship suffered severe damage after sinking the U.S. destroyer USS Barton with a torpedo.
On 6 April 1945, Amatsukaze was attacked by U.S. Army Air Forces B-25s, six miles east of Amoy ( ). Her crew managed to beach the ship but it later slid back into the sea and sank.
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| Kagero-class destroyer |
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Kagero | Kuroshio | Oyashio | Hatsukaze | Natsushio | Yukikaze | Hayashio | Maikaze | Isokaze | Shiranuhi | Amatsukaze | Tokitsukaze | Urakaze | Hamakaze | Nowaki | Arashi | Hagikaze | Tanikaze | Akigumo |
| List of ships of the Japanese Navy |
