Japanese destroyer Arare (1937)

	ONI file for Asashio-class destroyers
History
Empire of Japan
Name	Arare
Ordered	1934 Maru-2 Program
Builder	Maizuru Naval Arsenal
Laid down	5 March 1937
Launched	16 November 1937
Commissioned	15 April 1939
Stricken	31 July 1942
Fate	Torpedoed and sunk by USS Growler, 5 July 1942
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, 51,000 shp (38,031 kW)
Speed	34.85 knots (40.10 mph; 64.54 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	230
Armament	6 × 12.7 cm/50 Type 3 DP guns; up to 28 × Type 96 AA guns; up to 4 × Type 93 AA guns; 8 × 24 in (610 mm) torpedo tubes; 36 depth charges;

Arare (霰, "Hailstone") was the tenth and last of the 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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