Natsugumo (夏雲, Summer Cloud) was the seventh of ten Asashio-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the mid-1930s under the Circle Two...

of Japan have been named Natsugumo: Japanese destroyer Natsugumo (1937), an Asashio-class destroyer launched in 1937 and sunk in 1942 JDS Natsugumo, a...

with the British destroyer HMS Encounter, and suffered light damage with four crewmen wounded. On 1 March, together with Natsugumo, Minegumo unsuccessfully...

The Asashio-class destroyers (朝潮型駆逐艦, Asashio-gata kuchikukan) were a class of ten destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy in service before and during...

the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869-1945 (1st English ed.). London: Arms & Armour Press. ISBN 0-85368-151-1. MaritimeQuest Japanese Destroyer Index MaritimeQuest...

Hagikaze DD Maikaze DD Nowaki 9th Destroyer Division DD Asagumo DD Minegumo DD Natsugumo DD Yamagumo 24th Destroyer Division DD Kawakaze DD Suzukaze DD...

This List of Japanese Naval ships and war vessels in World War II is a list of seafaring vessels of the Imperial Japanese Navy of World War II. It includes...

following is a list of destroyers and 1st class (steam) torpedo boats of Japan grouped by class or design. In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable...

destroyers, built for the Imperial Japanese Navy following World War I. When introduced into service, these ships were the most powerful destroyers in...

This is a list of destroyers of the Second World War. The List of ships of the Second World War contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically...

JDS Natsugumo (DD-117) was the second ship of Minegumo-class destroyers. Natsugumo was laid down at Uraga Dock Company Uraga Shipyard on 26 June 1967 and...

the Imperial Japanese Navy. The ship was named after Mount Furutaka, located on Etajima, Hiroshima, immediately behind the Imperial Japanese Navy Academy...

for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), and like other vessels of her class, she was intended for use as the flagship of a destroyer flotilla. She served...

Supplement Programme and built by Kawasaki at Kobe, Japan, I-22 was laid down on 25 November 1937 with the name Submarine No. 47. While she was on the...

underway from Pearl Harbor, escaping the Japanese attack by two days. She patrolled with cruisers and destroyers in Hawaiian waters before steaming in convoy...

of the Imperial Japanese Navy between 1930 and the start of World War II. The London Naval Treaty placed severe restrictions on Japan's naval capabilities...

several speed records on her crossings between Japan and San Francisco.[citation needed] In December 1937 President Hoover ran aground on the Taiwanese...

Maritime Self-Defense Force All Ship History. Gaijinsha. 2004. "Minegumo / Natsugumo self-defense ship flag returned". Maritime Self-Defense Force Newspaper...

victory. The American destroyer USS Duncan sank from damage inflicted by the Furutaka, but the Japanese destroyers Murakumo and Natsugumo were bombed and sunk...

and won the Blue Riband that August; she lost the title to SS Normandie in 1937 and recaptured it in 1938, holding it until 1952, when the new SS United...

hulls. In early November, Komet resupplied and refueled in Japan, disguised as the Japanese merchantman Manio Maru. She operated with the Orion, disguised...