Japanese destroyer Yugure

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Fate: Sunk in action,
13 November 1942
Struck: 15 October 1943
General characteristics
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 (夕暮?) 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 (07°25′S, 156°45′E). Rescue destroyer Kiyonami was also sunk, leaving no survivors from among the entire combined Kiyonami-Yugure crews of 468 men.

Commanding Officers

Chief Equipping Officer - Lt. Cmdr. Shiro Yasutake - 1 November 1934 - 25 January 1935

Lt. Cmdr. Shiro Yasutake - 25 January 1935 - 15 November 1935

Lt. Cmdr. Masao Yanagawa - 15 November 1935 - 1 December 1937

Lt. Cmdr. Zenji Ichimon - 1 December 1937 - 12 January 1938

Lt. Cmdr. Seiji Sawamura - 12 January 1938 - 15 December 1938

Lt. Cmdr. Chiyoji Ishihara - 15 December 1938 - 20 February 1939

Lt. Cmdr. Tsutomu Hagio - 20 February 1939 - 15 December 1939

Lt. Cmdr. Isamu Fujita - 15 December 1939 - 15 October 1940

Lt. Cmdr. / Cmdr. Kiyoshi Kamo - 15 October 1940 - 20 July 1943 (KIA) (Promoted to Commander on 1 November 1942.)


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