Japanese destroyer Arare (1937)
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For other ships with the same name, see Japanese destroyer Arare.
Arare (霰, "Hailstone") [1] was the tenth and last of the Asashio-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the mid-1930s under the Circle Two Supplementary Naval Expansion Program (Maru Ni Keikaku).
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Empire of Japan | |
Name | Arare |
Ordered | 1934 Maru-2 Program |
Builder | Maizuru Naval Arsenal |
Laid down | 5 March 1937 |
Launched | 16 November 1937 |
Commissioned | 15 April 1939 |
Stricken | 31 July 1942 |
Fate | Torpedoed and sunk by USS Growler, 5 July 1942 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Asashio-class destroyer |
Displacement | 2,370 long tons (2,408 t) |
Length |
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Beam | 10.3 m (33 ft 10 in) |
Draft | 3.7 m (12 ft 2 in) |
Propulsion | 2-shaft geared turbine, 3 boilers, 51,000 shp (38,031 kW) |
Speed | 34.85 knots (40.10 mph; 64.54 km/h) |
Range | |
Complement | 230 |
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