Japanese destroyer Shiranui (1938)

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Shiranui on 20 December 1939
History
Empire of Japan
Name	Shiranui
Builder	Uraga Dock Company
Laid down	30 August 1937
Launched	28 June 1938
Completed	20 December 1939
Stricken	10 December 1944
Fate	Sunk in action, 27 October 1944
General characteristics
Class and type	Kagerō-class destroyer
Displacement	2,033 long tons (2,066 t) standard
Length	118.5 m (388 ft 9 in)
Beam	10.8 m (35 ft 5 in)
Draft	3.8 m (12 ft 6 in)
Propulsion	3 × Kampon water tube boilers 2 × Kanpon impulse turbines 2 × shafts, 52,000 shp (39 MW)
Speed	35.5 knots (40.9 mph; 65.7 km/h)
Range	5,000 NM at 18 knots (21 mph; 33 km/h)
Complement	239
Armament	(1939) 6 × 12.7 cm/50 Type 3 DP guns 2 × Type 96 25 mm AA guns 8 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes 18 depth charges 2 × paravanes (1943) 6 × 12.7 cm/50 Type 3 DP guns 8 × Type 96 25 mm AA guns 8 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes 18 depth charges

Shiranui (不知火, alternatively Shiranuhi, Phosphorescent Light)^[1] was the second vessel to be commissioned in the 19-vessel Kagerō-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the late 1930s under the Circle Three Supplementary Naval Expansion Program (Maru San Keikaku).