Destroyer Shigure

Shigure

Country	Japan
Ship Class	Shiratsuyu-class Destroyer
Builder	Uraga Dock Company, Uraga, Japan
Laid Down	9 Dec 1933
Launched	7 Sep 1936
Sunk	24 Jan 1945
Displacement	1,685 tons standard; 1,980 tons full
Length	353 feet
Beam	33 feet
Draft	12 feet
Machinery	2-shafts geared turbine, 3-boilers
Bunkerage	oil 500t
Power Output	42,000 shaft horsepower
Speed	34 knots
Crew	180
Armament	5-127mm/50cal guns, 4x13mm anti-aircraft, 21x25mm anti-aircraft, 8x24in torpedo tubes, 16 depth char

Contributor: C. Peter Chen

ww2dbaseShigure had a reputation of luck during the most of WW2. At the Battle of Vella Gulf, the Battle of Surigao Strait, and an escort mission with the aircraft carrier Unryu, she survived all three battles when her squadron mates were all sunk. She was torpedoed by American submarine Blackfin in the Gulf of Siam off Khota Bharu, Malaya in Jan 1945.

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Last Major Revision: Jan 2007

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Shigure Operational Timeline

9 Dec 1933	The keel of Shigure was laid down by the Uraga Dock Company in Uraga, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
7 Sep 1936	Shigure was launched at Uraga, Japan.
18 Dec 1941	Shigure, Shiratsuyu, Ariake, and Yugure departed Tokuyama, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan to make rendezvous with the Pearl Harbor strike force.
23 Dec 1941	Shigure, Shiratsuyu, Ariake, and Yugure arrived at Hashirijima in Hiroshima Bay, Japan, with the Pearl Harbor strike force in escort.
6 Aug 1943	In the Battle of Vella Gulf in the Solomon Islands, United States destroyers USS Dunlap, Craven, Maury, Lang, Sterett, and Stack, acting on intelligence gathered from Magic codebreaking intercepts, laid in wait for four Japanese destroyers on a night mission to bring troops to Munda on New Georgia. USS Dunlap, Craven, and Maury opened the attack by launching twenty-four Mark XV torpedoes in one minute. Japanese destroyers Hagikaze, Arashi, and Kawakaze were destroyed, killing 600 sailors and 900 Japanese Army passengers. Destroyer Shigure had a torpedo pass through her rudder but the ship was able to escape in the darkness.
18 Aug 1943	Shigure arrived at Rabaul, New Britain.
24 Jan 1945	Shigure was sunk by USS Blackfin in the Gulf of Siam off Khota Bharu, Malaya.

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Visitor Submitted Comments

1. Anonymous says:
13 Jan 2010 09:10:18 PM

She was also the only Japanese ship to survive the Battle of Surigao Strait.

2. Yuchen Liang says:
26 Jan 2024 07:34:11 PM

She was also the only ship of her class to survive into 1945.

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