Mutsuki-class destroyer
![]() Mutsuki 1930
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Class overview | |
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Name | Mutsuki |
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Preceded by | Kamikaze |
Succeeded by | Fubuki |
Built | 1924-1927 |
Planned | 12 |
Completed | 12 |
Lost | 12 |
Displacement: | 1,315 tons standard |
Length: | 102.72 m (337 ft) |
Beam: | 9.16 m (30 ft 1 in) |
Draft: | 2.96 m (9 ft 9 in) |
Propulsion: | 4 x Ro-Gō Kampon water-tube boilers 2 x Kampon geared turbines[1] 38,500 shp 2 shafts |
Speed: | 37.25 knots (69 km/h) |
Complement: | 154 (Dai-19-Gō Kuchikukan, 1926) |
Armament: | (Dai-19-Gō Kuchikukan, 1926) 4 × 3rd Year Type 120 mm (4.7 in) L45 guns, 2 x Type 92 7.7 mm machine gun, 2 x (III) 12th Year Type torpedo tubes (12 × 610 mm 8th Year Type torpedoes), 18 x depth charges 16 x Ichi-Gō naval mines[2] (Mutsuki, December 1941) (Uzuki, December 1942) (Uzuki, September 1944) |
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The Mutsuki class destroyers (睦月型駆逐艦, Mutsuki-gata kuchikukan) was a class of destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy. They were all completed from 1924 to 1927. They were planned as Kamikaze class destroyers at Eight-eight fleet project, however, they were planned after the Washington Naval Treaty to boost destructive power of torpedo, because construction of a battleship became impossible. In 1941, they already grew old, but became war potential to be next to Fubuki class destroyers because they were equipped with 610 mm torpedoes. And none of them was able to survive in Pacific War.
Ships in class
Ship | Laid down | Launched | Completed | Fate |
Mutsuki | 21 May 1924 | 23 July 1925 | 25 March 1926 | Sunk 25 August 1942 |
Kisaragi (II) | 3 June 1924 | 5 June 1925 | 21 December 1925 | Sunk 11 December 1941 |
Yayoi (II) | 11 January 1924 | 11 July 1925 | 28 August 1926 | Sunk 11 September 1942 |
Uzuki (II) | 11 January 1924 | 15 October 1925 | 14 September 1926 | Sunk 12 December 1944 |
Satsuki (II) | 1 December 1924 | 25 March 1925 | 15 November 1925 | Sunk 21 September 1944 |
Minazuki (II) | 24 March 1924 | 25 March 1926 | 22 March 1927 | Sunk 6 June 1944 |
Fumizuki (II) | 20 October 1924 | 16 February 1926 | 3 July 1926 | Sunk 18 February 1944 |
Nagatsuki (II) | 16 April 1925 | 6 October 1926 | 30 April 1927 | Sunk 7 July 1943 |
Kikuzuki (II) | 15 June 1925 | 15 May 1926 | 20 November 1926 | Sunk 5 May 1942 |
Mikazuki (II) | 21 August 1925 | 12 July 1926 | 5 May 1927 | Sunk 29 July 1943 |
Mochizuki | 23 March 1926 | 28 April 1927 | 31 October 1927 | Sunk 24 October 1943 |
Yūzuki | 27 November 1926 | 4 March 1927 | 25 July 1927 | Sunk 23 December 1944 |
Naming History
Original name and means | Renamed on 1 August 1928 and means |
Dai-19-Gō Kuchikukan (第十九号駆逐艦), No.19 Destroyer |
Mutsuki (睦月), January by the Lunisolar calendar |
Dai-21-Gō Kuchikukan (第二十一号駆逐艦), No.21 Destroyer |
Kisaragi (如月), February by the Lunisolar calendar |
Dai-23-Gō Kuchikukan (第二十三号駆逐艦), No.23 Destroyer |
Yayoi (彌生), March by the Lunisolar calendar |
Dai-25-Gō Kuchikukan (第二十五号駆逐艦), No.25 Destroyer |
Uzuki (卯月), April by the Lunisolar calendar |
Dai-27-Gō Kuchikukan (第二十七号駆逐艦), No.27 Destroyer |
Satsuki (皐月), May by the Lunisolar calendar |
Dai-28-Gō Kuchikukan (第二十八号駆逐艦), No.28 Destroyer |
Minazuki (水無月), June by the Lunisolar calendar |
Dai-29-Gō Kuchikukan (第二十九号駆逐艦), No.29 Destroyer |
Fumizuki (文月), July by the Lunisolar calendar |
Dai-30-Gō Kuchikukan (第三十号駆逐艦), No.30 Destroyer |
Nagatsuki (長月), September by the Lunisolar calendar |
Dai-31-Gō Kuchikukan (第三十一号駆逐艦), No.31 Destroyer |
Kikuzuki (菊月), September by the Lunisolar calendar |
Dai-32-Gō Kuchikukan (第三十二号駆逐艦), No.32 Destroyer |
Mikazuki (三日月), Crescent |
Dai-33-Gō Kuchikukan (第三十三号駆逐艦), No.33 Destroyer |
Mochizuki (望月), Full moon |
Dai-34-Gō Kuchikukan (第三十四号駆逐艦), No.34 Destroyer |
Yūzuki (夕月), Evening moon |
Books
- Rekishi Gunzō, History of Pacific War Vol.64 Mutsuki class destroyer, Gakken (Japan), May 2008, ISBN 4-05-605091-2
- Collection of writings by Sizuo Fukui Vol.5, Stories of Japanese Destroyers, Kōjinsha (Japan) 1993, ISBN 4-7698-0611-6
- The Maru Special, Japanese Naval Vessels No.51 Japanese Destroyers II, Ushio Shobō (Japan), May 1981, Book code 88343-53
- Model Art Extra No.340, Drawings of Imperial Japanese Naval Vessels Part-1, Model Art Co. Ltd. (Japan), October 1989, Book code 08734-10
References
- ^ Yayoi was equipped 2 x Metropolitan-Vickers geared turbines. Nagatsuki was equipped 2 x Escher Wyss & Cie Zoelly geared turbines.
- ^ Kikuzuki, Mikazuki, Mochizuki and Yūzuki were equipped 2 x paravanes.