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Yugure

Class	Hatsuharu class
Type	Destroyer (DD)
Fate	Sunk. In the carrier screen at Coral Sea, and not sunk there. With Ushio she took the damaged Shokaku out of that fight. Aircraft sank her on 20 July 1943 in the Vella Gulf. Not credited to one plane.
Armament (class)	Treaty destroyer after the Special Type. Two twin mounts, one single, two funnels.
Command	Ichimon, Zenji Captain, 1 December 1937 – 12 January 1938 Kamo, Kiyoshi Captain from 15 October 1940

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.

Yugure was a destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy, a ship of the Hatsuharu class. Zenji Ichimon was her captain from 1 December 1937 until 12 January 1938. Kiyoshi Kamo was captain from 15 October 1940.

At the Battle of the Coral Sea she stood in the carrier screen around Shokaku and Zuikaku. Her work that day was to stay with those carriers while the battle ran its course.

On 8 May 1942 Shokaku was damaged. Yugure and the destroyer Ushio took the carrier out of the fight. Yugure came through the day unhit, and Coral Sea left her afloat. She was still afloat the following summer. On 20 July 1943, aircraft sank her in the Vella Gulf.

No single plane is credited with that loss. The ship that had brought the damaged Shokaku clear of Coral Sea, in company with Ushio, ended under air attack in the gulf more than a year later.

The pictures on this page are the originals.