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; 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; (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. 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.

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