Japanese destroyer Ushio (1930)
Ushio underway on 4 August 1936. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Empire of Japan | |
| Name | Ushio |
| Ordered | 1923 Fiscal Year |
| Builder | Uraga Dock Company |
| Yard number | Destroyer No. 54 |
| Laid down | 24 December 1929 |
| Launched | 17 November 1930 |
| Commissioned | 14 November 1931 |
| Stricken | 15 September 1945 |
| Fate | Scrapped on 4 August 1948 |
| Notes | surrendered 15 August 1945 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Fubuki-class destroyer |
| Displacement | |
| Length |
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| Beam | 10.4 m (34 ft 1 in) |
| Draft | 3.2 m (10 ft 6 in) |
| Propulsion | |
| Speed | 38 knots (44 mph; 70 km/h) |
| Range | 5,000 nmi (9,300 km) at 14 knots (26 km/h) |
| Complement | 219 |
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| Service record | |
| Operations: | |
| Victories: | USS Perch (SS-176) (1936) |
Ushio (潮, "Tide") was the twentieth of twenty-four Fubuki-class destroyers that were built for the Imperial Japanese Navy following World War I. Ushio the only destroyer of the 20 ship strong Fubuki class destroyers, the first modern destroyer class in history, to survive World War II and was the only ship out of the 22 combat ships involved in the Pearl Harbor assault force to survive post-war. Ushio's only significant naval victory came by scoring primary credit for finishing off the badly damaged submarine USS Perch on 2-3 March 1942. She was sold for scrap in 1948.