IJN Samidare

Sunk

Type	Destroyer
Class	Shiratsuyu
War	Second World War
Main guns	5 × 12.7 cm/50 Type 3 naval guns (2×2, 1×1)

Fought on both nights of the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal.

Lot-2406-86: Japanese destroyer Samidare, Shigure class, starboard view, September 1937. Samidare was sunk by USS Batfish (SS 310) on August 25, 1944. Halftone copy from the files of the Department of Naval Intelligence, June 1943. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. (2016/05/12). Photo: National Museum of the U.S. Navy, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

5 × 12.7 cm/50 Type 3 naval guns (2×2, 1×1)
2 × Type 93 13 mm AA guns
8 × 24 in (610 mm) torpedo tubes
16 × Depth charges

Builder	Uraga Dock Company
Laid down	19 December 1934
Launched	6 July 1935
Commissioned	19 January 1937
Displacement	1,685 long tons (1,712 t)
Length	103.5 m (340 ft) pp 107.5 m (352 ft 8 in) waterline
Speed	34 knots (39 mph; 63 km/h)
Complement	226

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched

6 July 1935

Battle of the Java Sea

Survived

27 February 1942

Naval Battle of Guadalcanal: first night

Survived

13 November 1942

Naval Battle of Guadalcanal: second night

Survived

14–15 November 1942

Fate

Sunk

Torpedoed and sunk by USS Batfish, 26 August 1944