Order of Battle
Second Battle of Guadalcanal (Third Savo)
14-15 November 1942
Contributed by Richard Worth

AMERICAN FORCES:

Task Force 64
    Rear Adm. Willis August Lee
DD 416 Walke
    Sunk by gunfire and one Long Lance, 75 killed
DD 397 Benham
    Bow blown off by Long Lance, eventually sank
DD 379 Preston
    Sunk by gunfire, 116 killed
DD 433 Gwin
    Damaged by gunfire
BB 56 Washington
BB 57 South Dakota
    Entered battle with only seven main guns working
    Hit by twenty-seven shells, extensive but superficial damage; 38 killed, 60 wounded


JAPANESE FORCES

Volunteer Attack Force
    Adm. Nobutake Kondo

Emergency Bombardment Force
Sentai 11
Kirishima
    Struck by at least nine 16in shells and forty 5in shells, 250 killed.
    Later finished off by aircraft from Henderson Field.

Direct Escort
Hatsuyuki—Lt. Cdr. Tatsuya Yamaguchi
Asagumo—Cdr. Tooru Iwahashi
Teruzuki—Cdr. Tsuneo Orita
Shirayuki—Cdr. Rokorou Sugawara
Sentai 4—Adm. Kondo
Atago (F)
    Sustained minor damage
Takao

Direct Escort
Nagara
Inazuma—Lt. Cdr. Masamichi Terauchi
Samidare—Lt. Cdr. Noboru Nakamura

Ahead Sweeping Force
Desron 3—Adm. Shintaro Hashimoto
Sendai—Adm. Hashimoto

Desdiv 19
Shikinami—Cdr. Kawahashi Akifumi
Uranami—Cdr. Hagio Tsutomu
Ayanami—Cdr. Eiji Sakuma
    Sunk by gunfire, 196 survivors

Sources:
1. A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy by Paul S. Dull
2. Nihon Kaigun web site
3. Warship Losses of WWII by David Brown