Japanese destroyer Shigure (1935)
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Shigure (時雨, ”Drizzle”)[1] was the second of ten Shiratsuyu-class destroyers, and the first to be built for the Imperial Japanese Navy under the Circle One Program (Maru Ichi Keikaku).[2] Along with the destroyer Yukikaze, she developed a reputation within the Imperial Japanese Navy for being "lucky" or "unsinkable", emerging undamaged from several battles and as the sole surviving Japanese warship from two. As the flagship of Captain Tameichi Hara's Destroyer Division 27 Shigure received a prominent place in the memoirs of the only Japanese destroyer captain to survive the entire Pacific War and write about his experiences. Shigure was torpedoed and sunk by the submarine USS Blackfin in the Gulf of Siam on 24 January 1945.
Shigure in 1939 | |
History | |
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Empire of Japan | |
Name | Shigure |
Ordered | 1931 FY |
Builder | Uraga Dock Company |
Laid down | 9 December 1933 |
Launched | 18 May 1935 |
Commissioned | 7 September 1936 |
Stricken | 10 March 1945 |
Fate | Torpedoed and sunk by USS Blackfin 24 January 1945 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Shiratsuyu-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,685 long tons (1,712 t) |
Length |
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Beam | 9.9 m (32 ft 6 in) |
Draft | 3.5 m (11 ft 6 in) |
Propulsion | |
Speed | 34 knots (39 mph; 63 km/h) |
Range | 4,000 nautical miles (7,400 km) at 18 knots (21 mph; 33 km/h) |
Complement | 226 |
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