Japanese destroyer Yūgure (1934)
Yūgure photographed between 4–7 October 1935.
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 Empire of Japan
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| Name: | Yūgure |
| Ordered: | FY 1933 |
| Builder: | Maizuru Naval Arsenal, Japan |
| Laid down: | 9 April 1933 |
| Launched: | 6 May 1934 |
| Commissioned: | 30 March 1935 |
| Struck: | 15 October 1943 |
| Fate: | Sunk in action, 20 July 1943 |
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| Class and type: | Hatsuharu-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,530 t (1,510 long tons) |
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| Beam: | 10 m (32 ft 10 in) |
| Draught: | 3.38 m (11 ft 1 in) |
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| Speed: | 36 knots (41 mph; 67 km/h) |
| Range: | 4,000 nmi (7,400 km) at 14 kn (26 km/h) |
| Complement: | 212 |
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Yūgure (夕暮 ”Twilight”?) was the sixth and last Hatsuharu-class destroyer, built for the Imperial Japanese Navy under the Circle One Program (Maru Ichi Keikaku). Three were laid down in JFY 1931 and the next three in JFY 1933.
Construction of the advanced Hatsuharu-class destroyers was intended to give the Imperial Japanese Navy smaller and more economical destroyers than the previous Fubuki and Akatsuki-class destroyers, but with essentially the same weaponry. These conflicting goals proved beyond contemporary destroyer design, and the initial ships of this class were top-heavy design, with severe stability problems and with inherent structural weaknesses. After the "Tomozuru Incident" of 1934 and "IJN 4th Fleet Incident" in 1935, Yūgure underwent extensive design changes and modifications prior to launch to remedy these issues.
Yūgure was laid down at Maizuru Naval Arsenal in Maizuru, Kyoto on 9 April 1933, launched on 6 May 1934 and commissioned on 30 March 1935.
At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Yūgure was assigned to Destroyer Division 27 of Destroyer Squadron 1 of the IJN 1st Fleet together with her sister ships Shiratsuyu, Shigure, and Ariake, and was based at Hashirajima in Japanese home waters on anti-submarine patrol.
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