Japanese destroyer Ōshio

	Ōshio on trials
History
Empire of Japan
Name	Ōshio
Ordered	1934 Maru-2 Program
Builder	Maizuru Naval Arsenal
Laid down	5 August 1936
Launched	19 April 1937
Commissioned	31 October 1937
Stricken	1 April 1943
Fate	Torpedoed and sunk by USS Albacore, 20 February 1943
General characteristics
Class and type	Asashio-class destroyer
Displacement	2,370 long tons (2,408 t)
Length	111 m (364 ft) pp; 115 m (377 ft 4 in)waterline; 118.3 m (388 ft 1 in) OA;
Beam	10.3 m (33 ft 10 in)
Draft	3.7 m (12 ft 2 in)
Propulsion	2-shaft geared turbine, 3 boilers, 50,000 shp (37,285 kW)
Speed	35 knots (40 mph; 65 km/h)
Range	5,700 nmi (10,600 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h); 960 nmi (1,780 km) at 34 kn (63 km/h);
Complement	200
Armament	6 × 12.7 cm/50 Type 3 DP guns; 4 × Type 96 AA guns OR; 4 × Type 93 AA guns (records uncertain); 8 × 24 in (610 mm) torpedo tubes; 36 depth charges;

Ōshio (大潮, High Tide) was the second of ten Asashio-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the mid-1930s under the Circle Two Supplementary Naval Expansion Program (Maru Ni Keikaku).

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