Japanese destroyer Yugure
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| Fate: | Sunk in action, 13 November 1942 |
| Struck: | 15 October 1943 |
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| Displacement: | 1,802 tons |
| Length: | 359 ft 3 in (109.5 m) |
| Beam: | 32 ft 9 in (10.0 m) |
| Draft: | 9 ft 11 in (3.0 m) |
| Speed: | 36 knots (67 km/h) |
| Complement: | 200 |
| Armament: | 5 × 5 in ( 127 mm) / 50 caliber DP guns, up to 21 × 25 mm AA guns, up to 4 × 13 mm AA guns, 9 × 24 in torpedo tubes, 36 depth charges |
Yugure was a Hatsuharu-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her name means "Evening", or "Evening Dusk".
On 20 July 1943, while on a troop transport run to Kolombangara, Yugure was bombed and sunk by U.S. Marine TBF Avengers from Guadalcanal, north-northwest of Kolombangara (). Rescue destroyer Kiyonami was also sunk, leaving no survivors from among the entire combined Kiyonami-Yugure crews of 468 men.
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| Hatsuharu-class destroyer |
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Hatsuharu | Ariake | Hatsushimo | Nenohi | Wakaba | Yugure |
| List of ships of the Japanese Navy |
