Japanese destroyer Shigure

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Career Japanese Navy Ensign
Ordered:
Laid down:
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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).

Commanding Officers

Chief Equipping Officer - Lt. Cmdr. Shuichi Sugino - 26 August 1935 - 7 September 1936

Lt. Cmdr. Shuichi Sugino - 7 September 1936 - 1 December 1936

Lt. Cmdr. Minoru Yokoi - 1 December 1936 - 1 December 1937

Lt. Cmdr. Tamotsu Tanii - 1 December 1937 - 2 August 1938

Lt. Cmdr. Tomonari Ogata - 2 August 1938 - 1 April 1940

Lt. Cmdr. Kiyoshi Kaneda - 1 April 1940 - 1 September 1941

Lt. Cmdr. / Cmdr. Noboru Seo - 1 September 1941 - 20 November 1942 (Promoted to Commander on 1 November 1942.)

Lt. Cmdr. Kamesaburou Yamagami - 20 November 1942 - 18 December 1943

Lt. Cmdr. Shigeru Nishino - 18 December 1943 - 30 November 1944

Lt. Cmdr. Manubu Hagiwara - 30 November 1944 - 24 January 1945


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