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Arare

Class	Asashio class
Type	Destroyer (DD)
Fate	Sunk. Asashio-class destroyer. Screened the Pearl Harbor carriers and was not hit. The submarine Growler sank her on 5 July 1942 in Kiska harbor.
Armament (class)	Three twin 5-inch mounts, two funnels, and two banks of tubes.

Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.

The armament line is the class drawing, not a measurement of this hull.

Diagram of the class, not a photograph of this ship — No photograph of Arare was found. This is the U.S. Navy recognition sheet of the Asashio class, ONI 41-42, April 1943. It is not a picture of her. Public domain.

Arare was an Asashio-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. In December 1941 she screened the carriers of the striking force sent against Pearl Harbor.

On 7 December 1941, during the Attack on Pearl Harbor, that screen was her station. She guarded the striking force and was not hit.

On 3 June 1942 she was with the Aleutian Islands operation. Her service in that operation closed at Kiska.

On 5 July 1942, in Kiska harbor, the submarine Growler torpedoed Arare. The torpedo sank the destroyer.

Her fate was to be sunk. Arare went down in Kiska harbor on 5 July 1942, and the loss is credited to Growler.

The pictures on this page are the originals.