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The Japanese destroyer was one of twelve s, built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the 1920s. During the Pacific War, she participated in the Battle of Wake Island in December 1941 and the occupations of New Guinea and the Solomon Islands in early 1942. ==Design and description== The ''Mutsuki'' class was an improved version of the s and was the first with triple torpedo tubes. The ships had an overall length of 〔Watts & Gordon, pp. 265–66〕 and were between perpendiculars. They had a beam of , and a mean draft of . The ''Mutsuki''-class ships displaced at standard load and at deep load.〔Whitley, p. 191〕 They were powered by two Parsons geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft, using steam provided by four Kampon water-tube boilers. The turbines were designed to produce , which would propel the ships at . The ships carried of fuel oil which gave them a range of at . Their crew consisted of 150 officers and crewmen.〔Jentschura, Jung & Mickel, p. 143〕 The main armament of the ''Mutsuki''-class ships consisted of four in single mounts; one gun forward of he superstructure, one between the two funnels and the last pair back to back atop the aft superstructure. The guns were numbered '1' to '4' from front to rear. The ships carried two above-water triple sets of 61-centimeter torpedo tubes; one mount was between the forward superstructure and the forward gun and the other was between the aft funnel and aft superstructure. Four reload torpedoes were provided for the tubes.〔 They carried 18 depth charges and could also carry 16 mines. They could also fitted with minesweeping gear.〔 ==Construction and career== ''Mochizuki'', built by the Uraga Dock Company at their shipyard in Uraga, was laid down on 23 March 1926,〔 launched on 28 April 1927〔Chesneau, p. 192〕 and completed on 31 October 1927. Originally commissioned simply as ''Destroyer No. 33'', the ship was assigned the name ''Mochizuki'' on 1 August 1928.〔 In the late 1930s, the ship participated in combat in the Second Sino-Japanese War, covering the landings of Japanese troops in central and southern China. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Japanese destroyer Mochizuki」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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