Japanese destroyer Shigure (1906)
Shigure was one of 32 destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the first decade of the 20th century.
Design and description
The Kamikaze-class destroyers were improved versions of the preceding. They displaced at normal load and at deep load. The ships had a length between perpendiculars of and an overall length of, a beam of and a draught of. The Kamikazes were powered by two vertical triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one shaft using steam produced by four Kampon water-tube boilers. The engines produced a total of that gave the ships a maximum speed of. They carried a maximum of of coal which gave them a range of at a speed of. Their crew consisted of 70 officers and ratings.The main armament of the Kamikaze-class ships consisted of two 40-calibre quick-firing (QF) 12 cwt guns on single mounts; the forward gun was located on superstructure, but the aft gun was at the stern. Four 28-calibre QF three-inch 8 cwt guns on single mounts were positioned abreast the superstructure, two in each broadside. The ships were also armed with two single rotating mounts for torpedoes between the superstructure and the stern gun.