Mutsuki-class destroyer
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Description
The Mutsuki-class were 12 destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy. All were given names after each month of the lunar calendar in their traditional poetic form. They were ordered under the 1923 fiscal budget to expand the light fleet after the Washington Naval Treaty limiting the number and size of capital warships.
Initially only designated by hull number considering the Japanese Navy wanted to rapidly expand largely, this decision was unpopular among crew and confusing in communications with higher command, in August of 1928, names were assigned.
Vehicles
Rank I
Vehicles are listed in order of refit year, not build year
History
| Name | Number | Builder | Laid
Down |
Launched | Completed | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mutsuki
(睦月) |
Dai-19 | Sasebo Naval Arsenal | 21 May
1924 |
23 Jul
1925 |
25 Mar
1926 |
Sunk in air attack in Solomon Islands, 25 Aug 1942;
Struck 1 Oct 1942 |
| Kisaragi
(如月) |
Dai-21 | Maizuru Naval Arsenal | 3 Jun
1924 |
5 Jun
1925 |
21 Dec
1925 |
Combat loss off Wake Island, 11 Dec 1941;
Struck 15 Jan 1942 |
| Yayoi
(弥生) |
Dai-23 | Uraga Dock Company | 11 Jan
1924 |
11 Jul
1925 |
28 Aug
1926 |
Sunk in air attack in Solomon Islands, 11 Sep 1942;
Struck 20 Oct 1942 |
| Uzuki
(卯月) |
Dai-25 | Ishikawajima Shipyards | 11 Jan
1924 |
15 Oct
1925 |
14 Sep
1926 |
Sunk Ormoc Bay, 12 Dec 1944;
Struck 10 Jan 1945 |
| Satsuki
(皐月) |
Dai-27 | Fujinagata Shipyards | 1 Dec
1923 |
25 Mar
1925 |
15 Nov
1925 |
Sunk in air attack at Manila Bay, 21 Sep 1944;
Struck 10 Nov 1944 |
| Minazuki
(水無月) |
Dai-28 | Uraga Dock Company | 24 Mar
1925 |
25 May
1926 |
22 Mar
1927 |
Torpedoed in Celebes Sea, 6 Jun 1944;
Struck 10 Aug 1944 |
| Fumizuki
(文月) |
Dai-29 | Fujinagata Shipyards | 20 Oct
1924 |
16 Feb
1926 |
3 Jul
1926 |
Sunk in air attack at Truk, 18 Feb 1944;
Struck 31 Mar 1944 |
| Nagatsuki
(長月) |
Dai-30 | Ishikawajima Shipyards | 16 Apr
1925 |
6 Oct
1926 |
30 Apr
1927 |
Combat loss in central Solomons, 6 Jul 1943;
Struck 1 Nov 1943 |
| Kikuzuki
(菊月) |
Dai-31 | Maizuru Naval Arsenal | 15 Jun
1925 |
15 May
1926 |
20 Nov
1926 |
Sunk in air attack at Tulagi, 4 May 1942;
Struck 25 May 1942; Later salvaged by USS Menominee (AT-73), 6 Oct 1943 |
| Mikazuki
(三日月) |
Dai-32 | Sasebo Naval Arsenal | 21 Aug
1925 |
12 Jul
1926 |
5 May
1927 |
Sunk in air attack at Cape Gloucester, 29 Jul 1943;
Struck 15 Oct 1943 |
| Mochizuki
(望月) |
Dai-33 | Uraga Dock Company | 23 Mar
1926 |
28 Apr
1927 |
31 Oct
1927 |
Sunk in air attack in central Solomons, 24 Oct 1943;
Struck 5 Jan 1944 |
| Yūzuki
(夕月) |
Dai-34 | Fujinagata Shipyards | 27 Nov
1926 |
4 Mar
1927 |
25 Jul
1927 |
Sunk in air attack at Cebu, 12 Dec 1944;
Struck 10 Jan 1945 |
| Japan destroyers | |
|---|---|
| IJN | |
| Momi-class | IJN Momi |
| Mutsuki-class | IJN Mutsuki · IJN Satsuki |
| Fubuki-class | IJN Ayanami |
| Hatsuharu-class | IJN Hatsuharu · IJN Nenohi |
| Shiratsuyu-class | IJN Yuudachi |
| Yugumo-class | IJN Yugumo · IJN Hayanami · IJN Kiyoshimo |
| Shimakaze-class | IJN Shimakaze |
| Akizuki-class | IJN Akizuki · IJN Hatsuzuki |
| JMSDF | |
| Ariake-class* | JDS Yūgure (DD-184) |
| Harukaze-class | JDS Harukaze (DD-101) |
| * Modified Fletcher-class destroyers | |
