Mutsuki in 1930 |
| Class overview |
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| Name | Mutsuki class |
| Builders | |
| Operators | Imperial Japanese Navy |
| Preceded by | Kamikaze class |
| Succeeded by | Fubuki class |
| Built | 1924-1927 |
| Planned | 12 |
| Completed | 12 |
| Lost | 12 |
| General characteristics |
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| 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 | |
| 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
- (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
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The Mutsuki-class destroyers (睦月型駆逐艦, Mutsukigata kuchikukan) were a class of twelve destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy. 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.
