Japanese destroyer Ushio (1930)

	Ushio underway on 4 August 1936.
History
Empire of Japan
Name	Ushio
Ordered	1923 Fiscal Year
Builder	Uraga Dock Company
Yard number	Destroyer No. 54
Laid down	24 December 1929
Launched	17 November 1930
Commissioned	14 November 1931
Stricken	15 September 1945
Fate	Scrapped on 4 August 1948
Notes	surrendered 15 August 1945
General characteristics
Class and type	Fubuki-class destroyer
Displacement	1,750 long tons (1,780 t) standard; 2,050 long tons (2,080 t) re-built;
Length	111.96 m (367.3 ft) pp; 115.3 m (378 ft) waterline; 118.41 m (388.5 ft) overall;
Beam	10.4 m (34 ft 1 in)
Draft	3.2 m (10 ft 6 in)
Propulsion	4 × Kampon type boilers; 2 × Kampon Type Ro geared turbines; 2 × shafts at 50,000 ihp (37,000 kW);
Speed	38 knots (44 mph; 70 km/h)
Range	5,000 nmi (9,300 km) at 14 knots (26 km/h)
Complement	219
Armament	6 × Type 3 127 mm 50 caliber naval guns (3×2); up to 22 × Type 96 25 mm AT/AA Guns; up to 10 × 13 mm AA guns; 9 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes; 36 × depth charges;
Service record
Operations:	Second Sino-Japanese War; Battle of the Java Sea; Battle of the Coral Sea; Battle of Midway; Battle of the Eastern Solomons; Solomon Islands campaign; Battle of Leyte Gulf;

Ushio (潮, "Tide") was the twentieth of twenty-four Fubuki-class destroyers that were built for the Imperial Japanese Navy following World War I. When introduced into service, these ships were the most powerful destroyers in the world. They served as first-line destroyers through the 1930s, and remained formidable weapons systems well into the Pacific War. Ushio was one of only two of the 24 ships in its class to survive World War II, and it was also the only survivor out of the 22 combat ships involved in the Pearl Harbor assault force.

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