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Shigure
Country | Japan |
Ship Class | Shiratsuyu-class Destroyer |
Builder | Uraga Dock Company, Uraga, Japan |
Laid Down | 9 Dec 1933 |
Launched | 7 Sep 1936 |
Sunk | 24 Jan 1945 |
Displacement | 1,685 tons standard; 1,980 tons full |
Length | 353 feet |
Beam | 33 feet |
Draft | 12 feet |
Machinery | 2-shafts geared turbine, 3-boilers |
Bunkerage | oil 500t |
Power Output | 42,000 shaft horsepower |
Speed | 34 knots |
Crew | 180 |
Armament | 5-127mm/50cal guns, 4x13mm anti-aircraft, 21x25mm anti-aircraft, 8x24in torpedo tubes, 16 depth char |
Contributor: C. Peter Chen
ww2dbaseShigure had a reputation of luck during the most of WW2. At the Battle of Vella Gulf, the Battle of Surigao Strait, and an escort mission with the aircraft carrier Unryu, she survived all three battles when her squadron mates were all sunk. She was torpedoed by American submarine Blackfin in the Gulf of Siam off Khota Bharu, Malaya in Jan 1945.
ww2dbaseSource: Wikipedia.
Last Major Revision: Jan 2007
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Shigure Operational Timeline
9 Dec 1933 | The keel of Shigure was laid down by the Uraga Dock Company in Uraga, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. |
7 Sep 1936 | Shigure was launched at Uraga, Japan. |
18 Dec 1941 | Shigure, Shiratsuyu, Ariake, and Yugure departed Tokuyama, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan to make rendezvous with the Pearl Harbor strike force. |
23 Dec 1941 | Shigure, Shiratsuyu, Ariake, and Yugure arrived at Hashirijima in Hiroshima Bay, Japan, with the Pearl Harbor strike force in escort. |
6 Aug 1943 | In the Battle of Vella Gulf in the Solomon Islands, United States destroyers USS Dunlap, Craven, Maury, Lang, Sterett, and Stack, acting on intelligence gathered from Magic codebreaking intercepts, laid in wait for four Japanese destroyers on a night mission to bring troops to Munda on New Georgia. USS Dunlap, Craven, and Maury opened the attack by launching twenty-four Mark XV torpedoes in one minute. Japanese destroyers Hagikaze, Arashi, and Kawakaze were destroyed, killing 600 sailors and 900 Japanese Army passengers. Destroyer Shigure had a torpedo pass through her rudder but the ship was able to escape in the darkness. |
18 Aug 1943 | Shigure arrived at Rabaul, New Britain. |
24 Jan 1945 | Shigure was sunk by USS Blackfin in the Gulf of Siam off Khota Bharu, Malaya. |
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Visitor Submitted Comments
26 Jan 2024 07:34:11 PM
She was also the only ship of her class to survive into 1945.
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Thomas Dodd, late 1945
13 Jan 2010 09:10:18 PM
She was also the only Japanese ship to survive the Battle of Surigao Strait.