Japanese destroyer Take (1944)
![]() Take, 30 May 1944
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Name | Take |
Namesake | Bamboo |
Builder | Yokosuka Naval Arsenal |
Laid down | 15 October 1943 |
Launched | 28 March 1944 |
Completed | 16 June 1944 |
Stricken | 25 October 1945 |
Fate | Turned over to Great Britain 16 July 1947, scrapped |
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Class and type | Matsu-class escort destroyer |
Displacement | 1,282 t (1,262 long tons) (standard) |
Length | 100 m (328 ft 1 in) (o/a) |
Beam | 9.35 m (30 ft 8 in) |
Draft | 3.3 m (10 ft 10 in) |
Installed power | 2 × water-tube boilers; 19,000 shp (14,000 kW) |
Propulsion | 2 shafts, 2 × geared steam turbines |
Speed | 27.8 knots (51.5 km/h; 32.0 mph) |
Range | 4,680 nmi (8,670 km; 5,390 mi) at 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
Complement | 210 |
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Take (竹, "Bamboo") was one of 18 Matsu-class escort destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.
Completed on 6 June 1944, Take was assigned to Desron 11 of the Combined Fleet for a month's training, then was assigned to convoy escort duties.
On 3 December, Take was in Ormoc Bay, escorting convoy TA-7 while it landed reinforcements from Manila. Three American destroyers swept in just after midnight in an attempt to destroy the convoy; the ensuing battle saw Take's sister ship Kuwa sunk by gunfire and Take driven off with moderate damage, however in return the USS Cooper was hit by torpedoes and sunk.
Take would continue performing escort duties for the remainder of the war, and was in Maizuru for the Surrender of Japan.
Immediately postwar, Take was used as a repatriation ship. In 1947, she was turned over to Great Britain and then scrapped.
Bibliography[]
- Jentschura, Hansgeorg; Jung, Dieter & Mickel, Peter (1977). Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869–1945. Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute. ISBN 0-87021-893-X.
- Nevitt, Allyn D. (1998). "IJN Take: Tabular Record of Movement". www.combinedfleet.com. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
- Rohwer, Jürgen (2005). Chronology of the War at Sea 1939–1945: The Naval History of World War Two (Third Revised ed.). Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-119-2.
- Stille, Mark (2013). Imperial Japanese Navy Destroyers 1919–45 (2): Asahio to Tachibana Classes. Botley, UK: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84908-987-6.
- Sturton, Ian (1980). "Japan". In Chesneau, Roger (ed.). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
- Whitley, M. J. (1988). Destroyers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-326-1.
External links[]
- Nevitt, Allyn D. (1998). "IJN Take: Tabular Record of Movement". Long Lancers. Combinedfleet.com.
- Matsu-class destroyers
- Ships built by Yokosuka Naval Arsenal
- World War II destroyers of Japan
- 1944 ships