| Japanese destroyer Nire (1944) | |
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Japanese destroyer Nire 1945.jpg Nire in January or February 1945 | |
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| Name: | Nire |
| Ordered: | 1943 |
| Laid down: | 14 August 1944 |
| Launched: | 25 November 1944 |
| Completed: | 31 January 1945 |
| Struck: | 10 August 1945 |
| Fate: | Scrapped April 1948 |
| General characteristics Tachibana class | |
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| Beam: | 9.35 m (30 ft 8 in) |
| Draft: | 3.41 m (11 ft 2 in) |
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| Speed: | 27.3 knots (31.4 mph; 50.6 km/h) |
| Range: | 3,500 nmi (6,500 km) at 18 kn (21 mph; 33 km/h) |
| Complement: | 211 |
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Nire (楡, "elm") was a Tachibana class of the Imperial Japanese Navy during the final stages of World War II. Designated "Vessel 4809", she was laid down at Maizuru Naval Arsenal on 14 August 1944 and completed on 31 January 1945. She was surrendered at the end of the war without having been placed into combat service. The Tachibana-class vessels were designed primarily as convoy escort vessels based on a simplified design suitable for mass-production, and to operated by crew members without the prewar level of training, in order to make up for the attrition of the Japanese destroyer forces during the Pacific War. Despite their slower speed than previous destroyer classes, the class was relatively heavily armed, with an emphasis on anti-aircraft and anti-submarine capability.[2]
Operational history[]
Nire was completed on 31 January 1945 and assigned the same day to Destroyer Squadron 11 under the Combined Fleet under the command of Lieutenant Commander Takeo Shimoda, who was concurrently captain of the Sawakaze for crew training in the Seto Inland Sea. On 25 April, she became part of Destroyer Squadron 52 together with Sugi, Kashi and Kaede. On 22 June, while at Kure, she suffered from medium damage due to an air raid by USAAF B-29 Superfortress bombers, during which time 25 crewmen were killed and her engines were damaged. She underwent repairs at Kure Naval Arsenal until 2 July. However, due to lack of fuel, she was designed a guard ship and moored at Kure without returning to active service. On 15 July, her crew was transferred to Kaba and Lieutenant Commander Toshiharu Honda, concurrently captain of Nara was assigned command over the ship and its skeleton crew.[3]
Nire was surrendered to Allied forces at Kure at the time of the surrender of Japan and was removed from the navy list on 5 October. She was scrapped at Kure on 20 April 1948.[3]
References[]
- ↑ Fitzsimons, Bernard, general editor. Illustrated Encyclopedia of 20th Century Weapons and Warfare (London: Phoebus, 1978), Volume 17, p.1853, "Matsu".
- ↑ Stille, Mark (2013). Imperial Japanese Navy Destroyers 1919–45 (2). Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing. pp. 38–45. ISBN 978 1 84908 987 6.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Nevitt, Allan. "IJN Nire: Tabular Record of Movement". http://www.combinedfleet.com/nire_t.htm.
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