Japanese destroyer Tsuga (1920)
{{short description|Destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy}}
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{{Infobox ship image | Ship image = Lot-2406-103 (26922236841).jpg | Ship caption = Tsuga in 1940 }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header = | Ship country = Empire of Japan | Ship flag = {{shipboxflag|Empire of Japan|naval}} | Ship name = Tsuga | Ship namesake = | Ship ordered = | Ship builder =Ishikawajima, Tokyo | Ship laid down =5 March 1919 | Ship launched =17 April 1920 | Ship completed =20 July 1920 | Ship commissioned = | Ship fate = Sunk by American aircraft, 15 January 1945 | Ship struck = 10 March 1945 | Ship notes = }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption=(as built) |Ship type={{sclass|Momi|destroyer}} |Ship displacement=*{{convert|850|LT|t|lk=on|0}} (normal)
|Ship length=*{{convert|275|ft|m|abbr=on|1}} (pp)
|Ship beam={{convert|26|ft|m|abbr=on|1}} |Ship draft={{convert|8|ft|m|abbr=on|1}} |Ship power=*3 × Kampon water-tube boilers
|Ship propulsion=2 shafts; 2 × geared steam turbines |Ship speed= {{convert|36|kn|lk=in}} |Ship range={{convert|3000|nmi|abbr=on|lk=in}} at {{convert|15|kn}} |Ship complement=110 |Ship armament=*3 × single Type 3 120 mm 45 caliber naval gun
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The Japanese destroyer {{nihongo|Tsuga|栂|}} was one of 21 {{sclass|Momi|destroyer}}s built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the late 1910s. She spent most of the Pacific War patrolling and escorting convoys in and around Chinese waters, during which the ship participated in the Battle of Hong Kong in December 1941. Tsuga was sunk by American carrier aircraft in early 1945.
Design and description
The Momi class was designed with higher speed and better seakeeping than the preceding {{sclass|Enoki|destroyer|0}} second-class destroyers.Watts & Gordon, p. 259 The ships had an overall length of {{convert|280|ft|m|1}} and were {{convert|275|ft|m|1}} between perpendiculars. They had a beam of {{convert|26|ft|m|1}}, and a mean draft of {{convert|8|ft|m|1}}. The Momi-class ships displaced {{convert|850|LT|t|lk=on|0}} at standard load and {{convert|1020|LT|t|0}} at deep load.Jentschura, Jung & Mickel, p. 137 Tsuga was powered by two Parsons geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft using steam provided by three Kampon water-tube boilers.Friedman, p. 244 The turbines were designed to produce {{convert|21500|shp|kW|lk=on}} to give the ships a speed of {{convert|36|kn|lk=in}}. The ships carried a maximum of {{convert|275|LT|t|0}} of fuel oil which gave them a range of {{convert|3000|nmi|lk=in}} at {{convert|15|kn}}. Their crew consisted of 110 officers and crewmen.Watts & Gordon, p. 260
The main armament of the Momi-class ships consisted of three Type 3 120 mm 45 caliber naval gun in single mounts; one gun forward of the well deck, one between the two funnels, and the last gun atop the aft superstructure. The guns were numbered '1' to '3' from front to rear. The ships carried two above-water twin sets of {{convert|533|mm|sp=us|adj=on|0}} torpedo tubes; one mount was in the well deck between the forward superstructure and the bow gun and the other between the aft funnel and aft superstructure.
Construction and career
Tsuga, built at the Ishikawajima shipyard in Tokyo, was laid down on 5 March 1919, launched on 17 April 1920 and completed on 20 July 1920.Gardiner & Gray, p. 244
=Pacific War=
At the start of the Pacific War on 7 December 1941, Tsuga was assigned to the China Area Fleet with two of her sister ships, {{ship|Japanese destroyer|Hasu||2}} and {{ship|Japanese destroyer|Huri||2}}. She supported the invasion of Hong Kong in December 1941 and then began convoy escort and patrolling off the Chinese coast. The ship was sunk by carrier aircraft from Task Force 38 during its South China Sea raid on 15 January 1945 at coordinates {{Coord|23|33|N|119|33|E|display=inline,title}}.Hackett, Kingsepp & Cundall
Notes
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References
- {{cite book|editor1-last=Gardiner|editor1-first=Robert|editor2-last=Gray|editor2-first=Randal |title= Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921|year=1985|location=Annapolis|publisher=Naval Institute Press|isbn=0-87021-907-3|name-list-style=amp|chapter=Japan|author=Friedman, Norman|author-link=Norman Friedman}}
- {{cite web| url= http://www.combinedfleet.com/Tsuga_t.htm | title=IJN Second Class Destroyer Tsuga: Tabular Record of Movement | last1= Hackett | first1= Bob|first2=Sander|last2=Kingsepp|last3=Cundall|first3=Peter | date= 10 August 2018 |access-date=24 April 2021 | work=KUCHIKUKAN! Stories and Battle Histories of the IJN's Second-Class Destroyers| publisher=Combinedfleet.com |name-list-style=amp}}
- {{cite book| last = Jentschura| first = Hansgeorg| first2 = Dieter |last2=Jung|first3=Peter |last3=Mickel| year = 1977| title = Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869–1945| publisher = United States Naval Institute| location = Annapolis, Maryland| isbn = 0-87021-893-X|name-list-style=amp}}
- {{cite book|last1=Watts|first1=Anthony J.|title=The Imperial Japanese Navy|date=1971 |publisher=Doubleday |location=Garden City, New York|isbn=0-35603-045-8|last2=Gordon|first2=Brian G.|name-list-style=amp}}
{{Momi class destroyer}}
{{January 1945 shipwrecks}}
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Category:Ships built by IHI Corporation
Category:Momi-class destroyers
Category:Second Sino-Japanese War naval ships of Japan
Category:Destroyers sunk by aircraft
Category:Ships sunk by US aircraft