Murakumo-class destroyer

Murakumo-class destroyer Kagerō at Kure, 1920
Class overview
Name	Murakumo class
Builders	John I. Thornycroft & Company Chiswick, England
Operators	Imperial Japanese Navy
Preceded by	Ikazuchi class
Succeeded by	Akatsuki class
In commission	December 1898 - June 1925
Planned	6
Completed	6
Lost	1
Retired	5
General characteristics
Type	Destroyer
Displacement	275 long tons (279 t) normal 360.5 long tons (366 t) full load
Length	208 ft (63 m) waterline, 210 ft (64 m) overall[1]
Beam	19.5 ft (5.9 m)
Draught	6 ft 10 in (2.08 m)
Depth	13.5 ft (4.1 m)
Propulsion	2-shaft reciprocating, 3 boilers, 5,800 ihp (4,300 kW)
Speed	30 knots (56 km/h)
Complement	50
Armament	1 × QF 12-pounder gun 5 × QF 6 pounder Hotchkiss guns 2 × 450 mm (18 in) torpedoes

The Murakumo-class destroyers (叢雲型駆逐艦, Murakumo-gata kuchikukan) ("Gathering Clouds") were a class of six torpedo boat destroyers (TBDs) of the Imperial Japanese Navy, built in Britain in 1897–99. The class is also sometimes referred to as the Shinonome-class destroyers (東雲駆逐艦, Shinonome-gata kuchikukan)("Daybreak").^[2] All were named after celestial phenomena.