Japanese destroyer Oyashio
Launching of Oyashio, 28 November 1938 | |
| History | |
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| 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 & 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 |
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| 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 |
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Oyashio (親潮, lit. Father Current, from Oyashio Current) 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).