Japanese destroyer Asashimo
1943 Yūgumo-class destroyer
Asashimo (朝霜; "Morning Frost") was a Yūgumo-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Asashimo sank the submarine USS Trout on 29 February 1944, survived the battles of Leyte Gulf and Ormoc Bay, and was finally among the several ships sunk during Operation Ten-Go by attacking US aircraft on 7 April 1945.
Service career and fate
On 29 February 1944, while escorting a large convoy en route to Truk, Asashimo detected the submarine USS Rock making a night surface approach on the convoy. Rock fired a spread of four torpedoes from her stern tubes at the closing Asashimo without scoring a hit. Illuminated by the destroyer's searchlight, and under fire from the ship's 5-inch (130 mm) guns, Rock dived. For four hours Asashimo continued depth charge attacks, without success. That night Rock surfaced and found that her periscopes were excessively damaged and that her bridge had been riddled with shrapnel. The damage necessitated a return to Pearl Harbor for repairs. Later that night, the busy Asashimo sank the submarine USS Trout. Japanese records indicate that one of their convoys, Matsu No.
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