Ning Hai

Ning Hai is a destroyer of the Imperial Chinese Navy. She was laid down on 20 November 1934 at the Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai, launched on 26 April 1935, and commissioned on 15 August 1937. Ning Hai was assigned to the 1st Destroyer Flotilla of the North China Area Fleet. On 18 September 1937, Ning Hai and her sister ship Ping Hai were attacked by Japanese aircraft during the Battle of Shanghai. Ning Hai was hit by two bombs and sank with the loss of all hands. Ning Hai was posthumously awarded the Order of the Blue Sky and White Sun, the highest military decoration of the Republic of China. She was also designated as a national hero. In 1940, the Japanese salvaged Ning Hai's wreck and raised her. She was renamed "Ning Hai" and commissioned into the Imperial Japanese Navy. Ning Hai served in the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. She was sunk by American aircraft on 15 October 1944 during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. In 1945, the wreck of Ning Hai was salvaged