Japanese destroyer Shigure (1935)
Shigure in 1939
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| Name: | Shigure |
| Ordered: | 1931 FY |
| Builder: | Uraga Dock Company |
| Laid down: | 9 December 1933 |
| Launched: | 18 May 1935 |
| Commissioned: | 7 September 1936 |
| Struck: | 10 March 1945 |
| Fate: | Sunk in action 24 January 1945 |
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| Class and type: | Shiratsuyu-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,685 long tons (1,712 t) |
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| Beam: | 9.9 m (32 ft 6 in) |
| Draft: | 3.5 m (11 ft 6 in) |
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| 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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Shigure (時雨 ”Drizzle”?) 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). 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. Shigure was torpedoed and sunk by the submarine USS Blackfin in the Gulf of Siam on 24 January 1945.
The Shiratsuyu-class destroyers were modified versions of the Hatsuharu class, and were designed to accompany the Japanese main striking force and to conduct both day and night torpedo attacks against the United States Navy as it advanced across the Pacific Ocean, according to Japanese naval strategic projections. Despite being one of the most powerful classes of destroyers in the world at the time of their completion, none survived the Pacific War.
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