Japanese destroyer Shirakumo (1927)
Service
- as Shirakumo28 July 1928 — 31 March 19441,670 days of the war
- Name
- Shirakumo
- Pennant / hull number
- 1927
- Namesake
- Japanese destroyer Shirakumo
- Builder
- Fujinagata Shipyards
- Ordered
- 1923
- Laid down
- 27 October 1926
- Launched
- 27 December 1927
- Commissioned
- 28 July 1928
- Struck
- 31 March 1944
- Fate
- Torpedoed and sunk, 16 March 1944
By torpedo (1944) - Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,750 long tons (1,778 t)
- Length
- 118.41 m (388.5 ft) OA
- Beam
- 10.4 m (34.1 ft)
- Draught
- 3.2 m (10.5 ft)
- Speed
- 38 knots (70.4 km/h, 43.7 mph)
- Range
- 5,000 nmi (9,260 km)
- Complement
- 219
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
Shirakumo was a Fubuki-class destroyer built for the Imperial Japanese Navy. She carried the pennant number 1927. The ship was named after Japanese destroyer Shirakumo. Fujinagata Shipyards laid her keel on 27 October 1926. Launched on 27 December 1927, she entered service on 28 July 1928.
21 ships of the class were built. The class followed the Mutsuki-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Hatsuharu-class destroyer.
Displacement was 1,750 long tons. She measured 118.4 m (388 ft) long with a beam of 10.4 m (34 ft). Her designed speed was 38 knots, and she carried a complement of 219. Her main battery was of 127 mm (5 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 1,670 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 31 March 1944.
She was sunk on 16 March 1944 by torpedo, at 42°25′N 144°55′E. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 4 × Kampon type boilers
- 2 × Kampon Type Ro geared turbines
- 2 × shafts at 50000 ihp
- Armament
- 6 × Type 3 127 mm 50 caliber naval guns (3×2)
- up to 22 × Type 96 25 mm AT/AA guns
- up to 10 × 13 mm AA guns
- 9 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes
- 36 × depth charges
Sister ships
- Japanese destroyer Akebono (1930)
- Japanese destroyer Amagiri (1930)
- Japanese destroyer Asagiri (1929)
- Japanese destroyer Ayanami (1929)
- Japanese destroyer Fubuki (1927)
- Japanese destroyer Hatsuyuki (1928)
- Japanese destroyer Ikazuchi (1931)
- Japanese destroyer Inazuma (1932)
- Japanese destroyer Isonami (1927)
- Japanese destroyer Murakumo (1928)
- Japanese destroyer Oboro (1930)
- Japanese destroyer Sagiri
- Japanese destroyer Sazanami (1931)
- Japanese destroyer Shikinami (1929)
- Japanese destroyer Shinonome (1927)
- Japanese destroyer Shirayuki (1928)
- Japanese destroyer Uranami (1928)
- Japanese destroyer Ushio (1930)
- Japanese destroyer Usugumo (1927)
- Japanese destroyer Yūgiri (1930)
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese destroyer Shirakumo (1927) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Shizuo Fukui — Kure Maritime Museum, Japanese Naval Warship Photo Album: Destroyers , edited by Kazushige Todaka, p. 54 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons