Japanese destroyer Shigure

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Fate:	Sunk in action, 24 January 1945
Struck:	10 March 1945
General Characteristics
Displacement:	1,980 tons
Length:	352 ft 8 in (107.5 m)
Beam:	32 ft 6 in (9.9 m)
Draft:	11 ft 6 in (3.5 m)
Speed:	34 knots (63 km/h)
Complement:	180
Armament:	5 × 5 in ( 127 mm) / 50 caliber DP guns, up to 21 × 25 mm AA guns, up to 4 × 13 mm AA guns, 8 × 24 in torpedo tubes, 16 depth charges

Shigure was a Shiratsuyu-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her name means "The Frequent Rains of Fall and Winter" (Autumn Shower).

During World War II, Shigure gained a reputation for being strangely lucky or cursed. On three separate occasions — the Battle of Vella Gulf, the Battle of Surigao Strait, and an escort mission with the aircraft carrier Unryū — all other vessels in Shigure's squadron were sunk, and Shigure was the only ship to return.

Shigure's luck ran out on 24 January 1945, when she was torpedoed and sunk by USS Blackfin (SS-322) in the Gulf of Siam, 160 miles (295 km) east of Khota Bharu, Malaya (06°0′N 103°48′E).