Mutsuki-class destroyer

Mutsuki in 1930
Class overview
Name	Mutsuki class
Builders	Maizuru Naval Arsenal Mitsubishi-Nagasaki Uraga Dock Company Ishikawajima Shipyards Fujinagata Shipyards Sasebo Naval Arsenal
Operators	Imperial Japanese Navy
Preceded by	Kamikaze class
Succeeded by	Fubuki class
Built	1924-1927
Planned	12
Completed	12
Lost	12
General characteristics
Type	Destroyer
Displacement	1,315 long tons (1,336 t) normal, 1,445 long tons (1,468 t) full load
Length	97.54 m (320.0 ft) pp, 102.72 m (337.0 ft) overall
Beam	9.16 m (30.1 ft)
Draught	2.96 m (9.7 ft)
Propulsion	4 × Ro-Gō Kampon water-tube boilers 2 × Kampon geared turbines[1] 38,500 ihp (28,700 kW) 2 shafts
Speed	37.25 knots (68.99 km/h)
Range	3,600 nautical miles (6,700 km) at 14 knots (26 km/h)
Complement	154
Armament	(As originally built) 4 ×Type 3 120 mm 45 caliber naval gun, 2 × Type 92 7.7 mm machine gun, 2 × triple Type 12 torpedo tubes (12 × 610 mm Type 8 torpedoes), 18 × depth charges 16 × Ichi-Gō naval mines[2] (Mutsuki, December 1941) 4 ×Type 3 120 mm 45 caliber naval gun 2 × Type 93 13.2 mm (0.52 in) AA guns, 2 × Type 92 7.7 mm machine gun, 2 × triple Type 12 torpedo tubes (12 × 610 mm 8th Year Type torpedoes), 18 × depth charges (Uzuki, December 1942) 4 ×Type 3 120 mm 45 caliber naval gun, 2 × Type 93 13 mm AA guns, 2 × Type 92 7.7 mm machine guns, 2 × triple Type 12 torpedo tubes (12 × 610 mm 8th Year Type torpedoes), 18 × depth charges 1 × landing craft (Uzuki, September 1944) 2 ×Type 3 120 mm 45 caliber naval gun, 16 × Type 96 25 mm AT/AA Guns, 1 × triple Type 12 torpedo tubes (6 × 610 mm 8th Year Type torpedoes), 36 × depth charges

The Mutsuki-class destroyers (睦月型駆逐艦, Mutsukigata kuchikukan) were a class of twelve destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy.^[3] All were given traditional poetic names of the months of the year by the Lunar calendar or phases of the moon. Some authors consider the Kamikaze and Mutsuki-class destroyers to be extensions of the earlier Minekaze class.^[4]