In real life, Shikinami was part of DesDiv19 alongside her sister Ayanami and her half-sisters Isonami and Uranami. She first saw action in the battle of the Sunda Strait where she fired the torpedo that sank Houston. Later seeing action in the battle of Midway and Naval Guadalcanal, she rescued Shirayuki's survivors in the battle of the Bismarck Sea and spent the rest of her combat duty as a convoy escort, where she was sunk in one of these in September 1944.
