Japanese destroyer Shinonome

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Shinonome
Career
Laid down:
Launched:
Struck: 15 January 1942
Status: Sunk in action, 17 December 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

Shinonome was a Fubuki-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her name means "Morning Twilight" or "Daybreak Clouds".

On 17 December 1941, Shinonome was with the Borneo invasion force. She suffered two direct bomb hits by Dutch flying boat X-32 of GVT-7, which detonated the aft magazine. Shinonome blew up and sank with all hands off Miri, Borneo (04°24′N 114°0′E).

On 15 January 1942, Shinonome was removed from the Navy List.


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Fubuki-class destroyer

Type I (Fubuki)
Fubuki | Shirayuki | Hatsuyuki | Miyuki | Murakumo | Shinonome | Usugumo | Shirakumo | Isonami | Uranami

Type II (Ayanami)
Ayanami | Shikinami | Asagiri | Yugiri | Amagiri | Sagiri | Oboro | Akebono | Sazanami | Ushio

List of ships of the Japanese Navy