Japanese destroyer Tsuga (1920)

	Tsuga in 1940
History
Empire of Japan
Name	Tsuga
Builder	Ishikawajima, Tokyo
Laid down	5 March 1919
Launched	17 April 1920
Completed	20 July 1920
Stricken	10 March 1945
Fate	Sunk by American aircraft, 15 January 1945
General characteristics (as built)
Type	Momi-class destroyer
Displacement	850 long tons (864 t) (normal); 1,020 long tons (1,036 t) (deep load);
Length	275 ft (83.8 m) (pp); 280 ft (85.3 m) (o/a);
Beam	26 ft (7.9 m)
Draft	8 ft (2.4 m)
Installed power	3 × Kampon water-tube boilers; 21,500 shp (16,000 kW);
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 × geared steam turbines
Speed	36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range	3,000 nmi (5,600 km; 3,500 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	110
Armament	3 × single 12 cm (4.7 in) guns; 2 × twin 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes;

The Japanese destroyer Tsuga (栂) was one of 21 Momi-class destroyers 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.

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