Yamagumo as of 1944
By 1944 she had recieved a Type 13 air search radar and a type 22 surface search radar, lower portholes were sealed and anti-aircraft armament increased to 24 barrels, with X turret beign relaced by two triple 25mm machine gun mounts.
Yamagumo sank during the battle of Surigao strait, on october 25 1944, torpedoed by USS McDermutt, leaving only two survivors.