Japanese destroyer Samidare (1935)
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For other ships with the same name, see Japanese destroyer Samidare.
Samidare (五月雨, "Early Summer Rain")[1] was the fifth of ten Shiratsuyu-class destroyers, built for the Imperial Japanese Navy under the Circle One Program (Maru Ichi Keikaku).[2]
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Name | Samidare |
Ordered | FY 1931 |
Builder | Uraga Dock Company |
Laid down | 19 December 1934 |
Launched | 6 July 1935 |
Commissioned | 19 January 1937 |
Stricken | 10 October 1944 |
Fate | Torpedoed and sunk by USS Batfish, 26 August 1944 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Shiratsuyu-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,685 long tons (1,712 t) |
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Beam | 9.9 m (32 ft 6 in) |
Draft | 3.5 m (11 ft 6 in) |
Propulsion | |
Speed | 34 knots (39 mph; 63 km/h) |
Range | 4,000 nmi (7,400 km) at 18 kn (33 km/h) |
Complement | 226 |
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