Japanese destroyer Shiranui (1938)

Shiranui (不知火, alternatively Shiranuhi, Phosphorescent Light) was the second 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).

Shiranui operated with the Kido Butai aircraft carrier force for the first few months of WW2, including taking part in the Pearl Harbor strike force. The only break from this came at the beginning of March, where Shiranui involved herself in a small surface action when she helped to sink the Dutch freighter Modjokerto. Shortly after escorting troop convoys during the battle of Midway, Shiranui's entire forward 3rd was blown off by a torpedo from the submarine USS Growler. Repairs lasted until the end of 1943, with the damaging being extensively photographed. After a series of patrol duties, she took part in the battle of Leyte Gulf, nearly surviving the battle, but being sunk with all hands by dive bombers from USS Enterprise during its final stages.