Ikazuchi-class destroyer

Ikazuchi-class destroyer Sazanami at Yokosuka
Class overview
Name	Ikazuchi class
Builders	Yarrow & Company, Poplar, London
Operators	Imperial Japanese Navy
Preceded by	None
Succeeded by	Murakumo class
In commission	February 1899 – August 1921
Planned	6
Completed	6
Lost	3
Retired	3
General characteristics
Type	Destroyer
Displacement	305 long tons (310 t) normal, 410 long tons (417 t) full load
Length	67.2 m (220 ft) pp, 68.4 m (224 ft) overall
Beam	6.2 m (20 ft)
Draught	1.57 m (5.2 ft)
Propulsion	2-shaft reciprocating, 4 Yarrow boilers, 6,000 ihp (4,500 kW)
Speed	30 knots (56 km/h)
Complement	55
Armament	1 × QF 12 pounder gun 5 × QF 6 pounder Hotchkiss gun 2 × 18 in (460 mm) torpedoes

The Ikazuchi-class destroyers (雷型駆逐艦, Ikazuchi-gata kuchikukan) was a class of six torpedo boat destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy, which were built in Britain in 1897-99. All were named after celestial phenomena.^[1]