Japanese destroyer Sagiri

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Career
Sagiri
Laid down:	March 28, 1929
Launched:	December 23, 1929
Commissioned:	January 31, 1931
Status:	Sunk by K XVI on December 24, 1941
General Characteristics
Displacement:	2,050 tons
Length:	378 ft 3 in (115.3 m)
Beam:	34 ft (10.4 m)
Draft:	10 ft 6 in (3.2 m)
Propulsion:	4 × Kampon type boilers, 2 × Parsons geared turbines, 2 × shafts at 50,000 shp (37 MW)
Speed:	38 knots (70 km/h)
Range:	5,000 nm at 14 knots (9,200 km at 26 km/h)
Complement:	197
Armament:	6 × 5 inch (127 mm) / 50 caliber guns (3 × 2-gun turrets), up to 22 × 25 mm AA guns, up to 10 × 13 mm AA guns, 9 × 610 mm torpedo tubes, 36 × depth charges

Sagiri (Japanese 狭霧, Thin Fog) was a Fubuki class destroyer that served in the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Sino-Japanese War and World War II.

Sagiri was laid down by the Uraga Dock Co. on 28 March 1929, launched on 23 December of the same year, and commissioned on 31 January 1931. It was the sixth of the intermediate group of Fubuki class destroyers.

Sagiri was assigned to Destroyer Division 20 and took part in Imperial Japanese Navy combat maneuvers and the Second Sino-Japanese War during the 1930s.

On 8 December 1941, during World War II, Destroyer Division 20 provided covering fire for the Japanese landings at Singora, Thailand. On 17 December 1941, Sagiri, which was detached from Destroyer Division 20, took part in the Japanese landings at Miri in northern Borneo. On 23 December-24 December 1941, it participated in the invasion at Kuching, Sarawak. On 24 December 1941, Sagiri was steaming about 35 miles off Kuching when it was torpedoed by the Dutch submarine K XVI. Sagiri's torpedoes caught fire and exploded, sinking the ship with the loss of 121 of its crew.