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Sagiri

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ClassFubuki class
TypeDestroyer (DD)
BuilderUraga Dock Company
Launched1929-12-23
Commissioned1931-01-31
FateSunk. Torpedoed by the Dutch submarine K XVI on 24 December 1941 about 35 nautical miles off Kuching. Her aft magazine exploded and 121 of her crew were lost.
Armament (class)Special Type. Three twin 5-inch mounts, two funnels, and three 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.

Sagiri
Sagiri, photographed on 10 August 1936. Photo from the Kure Maritime Museum's destroyer album (Todaka, ed.). Wikimedia Commons File:Sagiri1.jpg. Public domain.

The name means fog. Sagiri was a Fubuki-class destroyer built at Uraga. She was laid down on 28 March 1929, launched on 23 December 1929 and commissioned on 31 January 1931 in Destroyer Division 20. From 1937 she covered landings at Shanghai and Hangzhou and then patrolled the south China coast.

At Pearl Harbor she was in Destroyer Division 20, Destroyer Squadron 3, at Samah on Hainan. From 17 December 1941 she covered the Japanese landings at Miri and Kuching in Sarawak. On 24 December, about 35 nautical miles off Kuching, the Dutch submarine K XVI torpedoed her. Her aft magazine caught fire and exploded, and 121 of her crew were lost. Her sister Shirakumo rescued about 120 survivors. She was struck from the Navy List on 15 January 1942.

Sources: Allyn Nevitt's combinedfleet.com Tabular Record of Movement for IJN Sagiri; Wikipedia, Japanese destroyer Sagiri, rewritten here.

The pictures on this page are the originals.