| Japanese destroyer Suzutsuki | |
|---|---|
 Suzutsuki in postwar. | |
| Career |  |
| Name: | Suzutsuki |
| Builder: | Mitsubishi Nagasaki Shipyard |
| Laid down: | 15 March 1941 |
| Launched: | 4 March 1942 |
| Completed: | 29 December 1942 |
| Commissioned: | 29 December 1942 Yokosuka Chinjufu |
| Struck: | 20 November 1945 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Akizuki-class destroyer |
| Displacement: |
2,700 long tons (2,743 t) standard 3,700 long tons (3,759 t) full load |
| Length: | 134.2 m (440 ft 3 in) |
| Beam: | 11.6 m (38 ft 1 in) |
| Draft: | 4.15 m (13 ft 7 in) |
| Propulsion: |
3 x Ro-Gō Kampon water tube boilers, 2 x Kampon impulse geared turbines, 2 shafts, 52,000 shp (39 MW) |
| Speed: | 33 knots (38 mph; 61 km/h) |
| Range: | 8,300 nmi (15,400 km) at 18 kn (21 mph; 33 km/h) |
| Complement: | 263 |
| Armament: |
15 January 1943 : • 8 × 100 mm (4 in)/65 cal DP guns • 12 × 25 mm AA guns (4×3) • 4 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes • 8 × Type 93 torpedoes • 56 × Type 95 depth charges October 1944 : • 8 × 100 mm (4 in)/65 cal DP guns • 41 × 25 mm AA guns (7×3 + 20×1) • 4 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes • 8 × Type 93 torpedoes • 56 × Type 2 depth charges |
Suzutsuki (涼月) was an Akizuki-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her name means "Clear Moon (in Autumn)".
On 6–7 April 1945, Suzutsuki escorted Yamato from the Inland Sea on her attack mission against the Allied forces fighting on Okinawa. Her bow was torn off by a torpedo from aircraft of Task Force 58, but survived and returned to Sasebo, by steaming in reverse the whole way. She, her sister Fuyuzuki, Yukikaze, and Hatsushimo (sunk two days later by a mine off the Inland Sea), survived the ordeal, despite suffering heavy damage, but Yamato, and five escorts, Yahagi, Asashimo, Kasumi, Hamakaze and Isokaze were all sunk with heavy losses of life. Some of the survivors were picked up by Suzutsuki.
Following the end of the war, Suzutsuki was initially used as a breakwater at Takamatsu in November 1945, then was sold for scrap that same month after her name was delisted from the Navy List on 20 November.
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