Japanese destroyer Tsuga (1920)
The Japanese destroyer Tsuga was one of 21 s built for the Imperial Japanese Navy 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 second-class destroyers. The ships had an overall length of and were between perpendiculars. They had a beam of, and a mean draft of. The Momi-class ships displaced at standard load and at deep load. Tsuga was powered by two Parsons geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft using steam provided by three Kampon water-tube boilers. The turbines were designed to produce to give the ships a speed of. The ships carried a maximum of of fuel oil which gave them a range of at. Their crew consisted of 110 officers and crewmen.The main armament of the Momi-class ships consisted of three Type 3 guns 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 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.