Photos and the story
| Class | Kagero class |
|---|---|
| Type | Destroyer (DD) |
| Builder | Fujinagata Shipyards |
| Launched | 1940-04-19 |
| Commissioned | 1940-12-15 |
| Fate | Sunk. Torpedoed by USS Sealion NNW of Keelung, Taiwan, 21 November 1944 |
| Armament (class) | Three twin 5-inch mounts, two funnels, and two quadruple banks of tubes. |
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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.
Urakaze was a Kagero-class destroyer, built at Fujinagata, launched on 19 April 1940 and commissioned on 15 December 1940.
On 25 October 1944 she was in Kurita's screen off Samar. She was not sunk. The American ships lost that morning are not credited to her.
On 21 November 1944, northwest of Keelung, the submarine Sealion torpedoed her. She sank. That was the same boat, the same day, that sank Kongo. They were not the same fight as Samar.
The pictures on this page are the originals.
No color version yet. Colored pictures and film will be added here.