Pacific ships

IJN · DD

Afloat

Kagero-class destroyer. In Abe's screen on 13 November 1942 and she came through that night. At the Bismarck Sea she was one of the four destroyers that got the convoy's survivors away. The only ship of her class still afloat at the end of the war. She went to China.

Kagero classSasebo Naval ArsenalLaunched 1939-03-24Commissioned 1940-01-20Survived the war. Surrendered to Republic of China on 6 July 1947 at Shanghai, renamed DD-12 Tan Yang (丹陽); scrapped 1970

Destroyer Yukikaze after the war (1945-1947).jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Command

Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, night action

1942-11-13 · in Abe's screen

Battle of the Bismarck Sea

1943-03-02 · got away with survivors

Battle off Samar

1944-10-25 · in the screen; not sunk off Samar