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Japanese destroyer Shiranuhi

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Fate: Sunk in action,
27 October 1944
Struck: 10 December 1944
General Characteristics
Displacement: 2,490 tons
Length: 388 ft 9 in (118.5 m)
Beam: 35 ft 5 in (10.8 m)
Draft: 12 ft 4 in (3.8 m)
Speed: 35 knots (65 km/h)
Complement: 240
Armament: 6 × 5 in (127 mm) / 50 caliber DP guns,
up to 28 × 25 mm AA guns,
up to 4 × 13 mm AA guns,
8 × 24 in torpedo tubes,
36 depth charges

Shiranuhi was a Kagero-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

On 26 October 1944, after the Battle of Surigao Strait, Shiranuhi was sent to search for missing ships Kinu and Uranami, and then to assist Hayashimo. On 27 October she was sunk by aircraft of United States Navy Task Force 77, 80 miles (150 km) north of Iloilo, Panay ([12°0′N 122°30′E]).


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Kagero-class destroyer
Kagero | Kuroshio | Oyashio | Hatsukaze | Natsushio | Yukikaze | Hayashio | Maikaze | Isokaze | Shiranuhi | Amatsukaze | Tokitsukaze | Urakaze | Hamakaze | Nowaki | Arashi | Hagikaze | Tanikaze | Akigumo
List of ships of the Japanese Navy

 


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