Shinonome (ship, 1927)

Shinonome

Ship data flag  Japan Ship type destroyer class Fubuki class Shipyard Naval shipyard , Sasebo Launch November 26, 1927 Commissioning July 25, 1928 Whereabouts Sunk on December 16, 1941

Ship dimensions and crew length 118.41 m ( Lüa ) 115.3 m ( KWL ) width 10.4 m Draft Max. 3.2 m displacement 2,050 tn.l.   crew 197 men

Machine system machine 4 steam boilers 2 geared turbines Top speed 38 kn (70 km / h) propeller 2

Armament 6 × 12.7 cm- L / 50 - Sk 22 × 2.5 cm-L / 60 - Fla - MK 10 × 1.3 cm flak 9 × torpedo tube ∅ 61 cm ( type 93 ) 36 depth charges

The Shinonome ( Japanese : 東 雲) was a Fubuki- class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy .

The destroyer was on the Navy Yard Sasebo on 12 August 1926 laid the keel and on 26 November of the following year which occurred Launched still under the name Destroyer 40 (Jap .:第40号駆逐艦). The completion and commissioning of the destroyer dates back to July 25, 1928. On August 1, the ship was given its final name Shinonome .

Under Tai-i Sasagawa Hiroshi , the Shinonome was assigned to the 12th Destroyer Division, which was under the command of Ogawa Nobuki . Shortly before the start of the Pacific War , the destroyer moved from Kure to Hainan to join the escort fleet for the first troop transports to the Malay Peninsula . It was lying off the coast near Kota Bahru when the Japanese soldiers disembarked there at dawn on December 8, 1941. Then she set course for Cam Ranh Bay in Indochina .

To cover the invasion units , the Shinonome lay off the coast of British Borneo from December 16 . The next day the Dutch flying boat X-32, type Dornier Do 24 , which had started from Tarakan , succeeded in sinking the destroyer in front of Miri . To do this, the flying boat dropped five 200 kg bombs from a thick blanket of cloud, two of which hit the Shinonome on the quarterdeck and one exploded right next to the ship. They exploded the magazine below at 6:50 a.m. Tokyo time. The destroyer sank immediately. All 228 crew members were killed.

Since the next Japanese ship was a few kilometers away and visibility was still relatively obscured shortly after sunrise, the sinking of the Shinonome initially remained undetected. In later Japanese reports it was therefore assumed that the destroyer had run into a mine . The real cause could not be clarified until the late 1990s.

Web links

• Division destroyer 12 combinedfleet.com (Engl.)

Footnotes

1. ↑ Fubuki class 1st class destroyers ( Memento from June 30, 2011)
2. ↑ The rank Tai-i literally means great knight and corresponds to a German lieutenant captain .
3. ↑ Who sank the Shinonome? at: http://www.netherlandsnavy.nl/Shinonome.htm