Japanese destroyer Shigure (1906)
{{short description|Destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy}}
{{other ships|Japanese destroyer Shigure}}
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=Harasame-asakase.jpg |Ship caption=Sister ship Ayanami }} {{Infobox ship career |Ship country=Empire of Japan |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|Empire of Japan|naval}} |Ship name=Shigure |Ship builder=Kawasaki Shipyards, Kobe |Ship laid down= |Ship launched =12 March 1906 |Ship completed=11 July 1906 |Ship renamed= |Ship reclassified= |Ship decommissioned=1 April 1924 |Ship fate=Scrapped, 1924 }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Header caption=(as built) |Ship class={{sclass|Kamikaze|destroyer (1905)|0}} destroyer |Ship displacement=*{{convert|381|LT|t|lk=on}}
|Ship length=*{{convert|227|ft|m|abbr=on|1}} (pp)
|Ship beam={{convert|21|ft|7|in|m|abbr=on|1}} |Ship draught={{convert|6|ft|m|abbr=on|1}} |Ship power=4 boilers; {{cvt|6000|ihp|kW|lk=on}} |Ship propulsion=2 shafts; 2 triple-expansion steam engines |Ship speed={{convert|29|kn|lk=in}} |Ship range={{cvt|1200|nmi|lk=in}} at {{convert|15|kn}} |Ship complement=70 |Ship armament=
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{{nihongo|Shigure|時雨|}} ("Rainy Season") was one of 32 {{sclass|Kamikaze|destroyer (1905)|0}} destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the first decade of the 20th century.
Design and description
The Kamikaze-class destroyers were improved versions of the preceding {{sclass|Harusame|destroyer|4}}.Friedman 1985, p. 241 They displaced {{convert|381|LT|t|lk=on}} at normal load and {{convert|450|LT|t}} at deep load. The ships had a length between perpendiculars of {{convert|227|ft|m|1}} and an overall length of {{convert|234|ft|m|1}}, a beam of {{convert|21|ft|7|in|m|1}} and a draught of {{convert|6|ft|m|1}}. The Kamikazes were powered by two vertical triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one shaft using steam produced by four Kampon water-tube boilers. The engines produced a total of {{convert|6000|ihp|lk=on}} that gave the ships a maximum speed of {{convert|29|kn|lk=in}}. They carried a maximum of {{convert|100|LT|t|0}} of coalWatts & Gordon, p. 243 which gave them a range of {{convert|1500|nmi|lk=in}} at a speed of {{convert|15|kn}}. Their crew consisted of 70 officers and ratings.Jentschura, Jung & Mickel, p. 133
The main armament of the Kamikaze-class ships consisted of two 40-calibre quick-firing (QF) QF 12 pounder 12 cwt naval gun"Cwt" is the abbreviation for hundredweight, 12 cwt referring to the weight of the gun. on single mounts; the forward gun was located on superstructure, but the aft gun was at the stern. Four 28-calibre QF three-inch 8 cwt guns on single mounts were positioned abreast the superstructure, two in each broadside. The ships were also armed with two single rotating mounts for {{convert|450|mm|in|adj=on|1}}Friedman 2011, p. 349 torpedoes between the superstructure and the stern gun.
Construction and career
Notes
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Citations
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Books
- {{cite book|editor1-last=Gardiner|editor1-first=Robert|editor2-last=Gray|editor2-first=Randal |title= Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921|year=1985|location=Annapolis|publisher=Naval Institute Press|isbn=0-87021-907-3|name-list-style=amp|chapter=Japan|author=Friedman, Norman|author-link=Norman Friedman}}
- {{cite book|last=Friedman|first=Norman|title=Naval Weapons of World War One|publisher=Seaforth |location=Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK|year=2011|isbn=978-1-84832-100-7}}
- {{cite book| last = Jentschura| first = Hansgeorg| first2 = Dieter |last2=Jung|first3=Peter |last3=Mickel| year = 1977| title = Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869–1945| publisher = United States Naval Institute| location = Annapolis, Maryland| isbn = 0-87021-893-X|name-list-style=amp}}
- {{cite book |last1=Todaka |first1=Kazushige |last2=Fukui |first2=Shizuo |last3=Eldridge |first3=Robert D. |last4=Leonard |first4=Graham B. |title=Destroyers: Selected Photos from the Archives of the Kure Maritime Museum; the Best from the Collection of Shizuo Fukui's Photos of Japanese Warships |date=2020 |publisher=Naval Institute Press |location=Annapolis, Maryland |isbn=978-1-59114-630-8 |series=Japanese Naval Warship Photo Album|name-list-style=amp}}
- {{cite book
| last1 = Watts
| first1 = Anthony J.
| last2 = Gordon
| first2 = Brian G.
| year = 1971
| title = The Imperial Japanese Navy
| publisher = Macdonald
| location =London
| isbn = 0-35603-045-8|name-list-style=amp
}}
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Category:Kamikaze-class destroyers (1905)