Japanese destroyer Kuroshio

	Kuroshio being launched in October 1938
History
Empire of Japan
Name	Kuroshio
Builder	Fujinagata Shipyards, Osaka
Laid down	31 August 1937
Launched	28 October 1938
Completed	1 January 1940
Stricken	23 June 1943
Fate	Sunk in action, 8 May 1943
General characteristics
Class and type	Kagerō-class destroyer
Displacement	2,033 long tons (2,066 t) standard
Length	118.5 m (388 ft 9 in)
Beam	10.8 m (35 ft 5 in)
Draft	3.8 m (12 ft 6 in)
Propulsion	3 × Kampon water tube boilers; 2 × Kanpon impulse turbines; 2 × shafts, 52,000 shp (39 MW);
Speed	35.5 knots (40.9 mph; 65.7 km/h)
Range	5,000 NM at 18 knots (21 mph; 33 km/h)
Complement	239
Armament	(1939); 6 × 12.7 cm/50 Type 3 DP guns; 2 × Type 96 25 mm AA guns; 8 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes; 18 depth charges; 2 × paravanes; (1943); 6 × 12.7 cm/50 Type 3 DP guns; 8 × Type 96 25 mm AA guns; 8 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes; 18 depth charges;

Kuroshio (黒潮, "Black Current" or "Black Tide", Kuroshio Current) was the third vessel to be commissioned in the 19-vessel Kagerō-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the late-1930s under the Circle Three Supplementary Naval Expansion Program (Maru San Keikaku).

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