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Japanese destroyer Yomogi

The Japanese destroyer Yomogi (薄) was one of 21 Momi-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the late 1910s. In 1940, she was converted to Patrol Boat No. 38. The ship was torpedoed in the Bashi Strait by USS Atule on November 25, 1944, and stricken from the navy list on March 10, 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. Yomogi was powered by two Zoelly 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. ==Construction and career==
Construction and career
Yomogi, built at the Ishikawajima shipyard in Tokyo, was laid down on 26 February 1921, launched on 14 March 1922, and completed on 19 August 1922. In 1940, she was converted into patrol boat and she was renamed Patrol Boat No. 38 (第三十八号哨戒艇, Dai-38-Gō shōkaitei) on 1 April 1940: She was torpedoed in the Bashi Channel by the United States Navy submarine on 25 November 1944 and was struck from the navy list on 10 March 1945. ==Notes==
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