Gleaves and Kagero class ship names...

[jack54]

I posted these over on the Matrix forum and figured I would post here for anyone interested in re-naming their Japanese 'Kagero' class or American "Gleaves' class Destroyers. I found all the names on Wiki:

Kagero Class:

17 Kagerô - means: “Mirage” or “ Shimmer of hot air”, sunk 8 May 1943
18 Shiranui - means: ‘Phosphorescent Foam’? alternatively Shiranuhi, Unknown Fire) sunk 27 October 1944
19 Kuroshio - means: “Black Tide” (cf. Kuroshio Current), sunk 8 May 1943
20 Oyashio - means:” Parental Tide” or “Father Current “(cf. Oyashio Current),sunk 8 May 1943
21 Hayashio - means: “Swift Tide”, sunk 24 November 1942
22 Natsushio - means: “Summer Tide”, sunk 9 February 1942
23 Hatsukaze - means: “First Wind”, sunk 12 November 1943
24 Yukikaze - means: “Snowy Wind” (Surrendered to Republic of China on 6 July 1947 at Shanghai, renamed DD-12 Tang Yan scrapped 1970)
25 Amatsukaze - means:” Heavenly Wind” , sunk 6 April 1945
26 Tokitsukaze - means: “Season's Wind” or “favorable wind”?), sunk 3 March 1943
27 Urakaze - means:“ Inlet Wind”? or "Wind on the Sea"), sunk 21 November 1944
28 Isokaze - means:? "Wind on the Beach”? , sunk 7 April 1945
29 Hamakaze - means:? "Beach Wind”,? sunk 7 April 1945
30 Tanikaze - means: “Valley Wind”, sunk 9 June 1944
31 Nowaki - means: "Fall Gales", sunk 25 October 1944
112 Arashi - means: “Storm”, sunk 6 August 1943
113 Hagikaze - means: “Clover Wind”, sunk 6 August 1943
114 Maikaze - means: "Dancing Wind”, sunk 17 February 1944
115 Akigumo - means: “Autumn Clouds” , sunk 11 April 1944

Gleaves Class:

• USS Gleaves (DD-423)
• USS Niblack (DD-424)
• USS Livermore (DD-429)
• USS Eberle (DD-430)
• USS Plunkett (DD-431)
• USS Kearny (DD-432)
• USS Gwin (DD-433) (sunk 1943)
• USS Meredith (DD-434) (sunk 1942)
• USS Grayson (DD-435)
• USS Monssen (DD-436) (sunk 1942)
• USS Woolsey (DD-437)
• USS Ludlow (DD-438)
• USS Edison (DD-439)
• USS Ericsson (DD-440)
• USS Wilkes (DD-441)
• USS Nicholson (DD-442)
• USS Swanson (DD-443)
• USS Ingraham (DD-444) (sunk 1942)
• USS Bristol (DD-453) (sunk 1943)
• USS Ellyson (DD-454)
• USS Hambleton (DD-455)
• USS Rodman (DD-456)
• USS Emmons (DD-457) (sunk 1945)
• USS Macomb (DD-458)
• USS Forrest (DD-461)
• USS Fitch (DD-462)
• USS Corry (DD-463) (sunk 1944)
• USS Hobson (DD-464) (sunk 1952)
• USS Aaron Ward (DD-483) (sunk 1943)
• USS Buchanan (DD-484)
• USS Duncan (DD-485) (sunk 1942)
• USS Lansdowne (DD-486)
• USS Lardner (DD-487)
• USS McCalla (DD-488)
• USS Mervine (DD-489)
• USS Quick (DD-490)
• USS Carmick (DD-493)
• USS Doyle (DD-494)
• USS Endicott (DD-495)
• USS McCook (DD-496)
• USS Frankford (DD-497)
• USS Davison (DD-618)
• USS Edwards (DD-619)
• USS Glennon (DD-620) (sunk 1944)
• USS Jeffers (DD-621)
• USS Maddox (DD-622) (sunk 1943)
• USS Nelson (DD-623)
• USS Baldwin (DD-624)
• USS Harding (DD-625)
• USS Satterlee (DD-626)
• USS Thompson (DD-627)
• USS Welles (DD-628)
• USS Cowie (DD-632)
• USS Knight (DD-633)
• USS Doran (DD-634)
• USS Earle (DD-635)
• USS Butler (DD-636)
• USS Gherardi (DD-637)
• USS Herndon (DD-638)
• USS Shubrick (DD-639)
• USS Beatty (DD-640) (sunk 1943)
• USS Tillman (DD-641)
• USS Stevenson (DD-645)
• USS Stockton (DD-646)
• USS Thorn (DD-647)
• USS Turner (DD-648)

[jdarocha]

Great resource Jack, what about Carriers and Battleships?
Hlader

[MikeAP]

Gleaves-class Destroyers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleaves-class_destroyer

Interesting to read about the ones that were sunk.

[monkspider]

This is great info, thanks!