Japanese destroyer Asagumo (1937)

	Asagumo underway on 14 September 1939
History
Empire of Japan
Name	Asagumo
Ordered	1934 Maru-2 Program
Builder	Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation
Laid down	23 December 1936
Launched	5 November 1937
Commissioned	30 March 1938
Stricken	10 January 1945
Fate	Sunk in Battle of Surigao Strait, 25 October 1944
General characteristics
Class & type	Asashio-class destroyer
Displacement	2,370 long tons (2,408 t)
Length	111 m (364 ft) pp; 115 m (377 ft 4 in)waterline; 118.3 m (388 ft 1 in) OA;
Beam	10.386 m (34 ft 0.9 in)
Draft	3.7 m (12 ft 2 in)
Propulsion	2-shaft geared turbine, 3 boilers, 50,000 shp (37,285 kW)
Speed	35 knots (40 mph; 65 km/h)
Range	5,700 nmi (10,600 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h); 960 nmi (1,780 km) at 34 kn (63 km/h);
Complement	230
Armament	6 × 12.7 cm/50 Type 3 DP guns; up to 28 × Type 96 AA guns; up to 4 × Type 93 AA guns; 8 × 24 in (610 mm) torpedo tubes; 36 depth charges;
Service record
Part of	41st Destroyer Division (1938–1939); 9th destroyer division (1939–1944);
Operations	Battle of the Java Sea (1942); Battle of Midway (1942); Solomon Islands Campaign (1942); Naval Battle of Guadalcanal (1942); Battle of the Bismarck Sea (1943); Battle of Leyte Gulf (1944);
Victories	HMS Electra (1934); USS Monssen (1941);

Asagumo (朝雲, Morning Cloud) was the fifth of ten Asashio-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the mid-1930s under the Circle Two Supplementary Naval Expansion Program (Maru Ni Keikaku).