A message is sent requesting a tow vessel. However worsening weather and rising seas cause additional flooding. The ship is lightened, and that evening the storm floats her clear. Assisted by army boats AMATSUKAZE drifts across the bay and grounds at 24-15'N, 118-00'E. Continued bad weather frustrates salvage attempts. She soon fully bottoms with both engine rooms flooded
By this time the destroyer is a wreck, reporting: Hull, ordnance, engine rooms, radio room, aft officer's ron. The wreck is blown up, and designated as a target to be used by Japanese bombers for training.
Of interest Lt. Morita was appointed to command of the Sijiao Island garrison, China Theater Fleet and remained there till after the war