High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Asashio was the lead ship of her class of destroyer in the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was built at the Sasebo Navy Yard. During trials, Asashio experienced steering problems and her maneuverability was unacceptable. The Asashio class was fitted with a redesigned stern and rudder design to resolve the problem. Other problems, chiefly involving the new and sophisticated 50,000 hp turbines, were also resolved.As the flagship of Destroyer Division 8, and a member of Destroyer Squadron 2, Asashio's first wartime mission was escorting Admiral Kondo's Southern Force Main Body out of Mako as distant cover to the Malaya and Philippine Islands invasion forces in December 1941. Asashio escorted a Malaya troop convoy from Mako towards Singora, then put into Hong Kong on 5 January 1942. She escorted another troop convoy to Davao, and then accompanied the Ambon invasion force , the Makassar invasion force and the Bali/Lombok invasion force .

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