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      The following is a list of destroyers and 1st class (steam) torpedo boats of Japan grouped by class or design. In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against smaller, powerful, short-range attackers. The Japanese torpedo boat Kotaka of 1885 was "the forerunner of torpedo boat destroyers that appeared a decade later". They were designed to Japanese specifications and ordered from the London Yarrow shipyards in 1885. The Yarrow shipyards, builder of the parts for the Kotaka, "considered Japan to have effectively invented the destroyer".


      Imperial Japanese Navy




      = Russo-Japanese War

      =
      These twenty-three 'turtle-back' destroyers, all authorised under the Ten Year Naval Expansion Programme of 1898, comprised six Ikazuchi class built by Yarrow and six Murakumo class built by Thornycroft in the UK, each carrying 1 × 12-pdr (aft) and 5 x 6-pdr guns and 2 × 18 in torpedo tubes, and followed by two larger ships from each of the same builders (the Shirakumo class from Thornycroft and the Akatsuki class from Yarrow), in which a second 12-pdr replaced the foremost 6-pdr, and finally by seven Harusame class built in Japan. All were later rated as 3rd Class destroyers (under 600 tons each). The programme also included sixteen First Class torpedo boats, included below (47 smaller 2nd and 3rd Class boats from this Programme are not included)


      Murakumo class — 6 ships




      Ikazuchi class — 6 ships




      Shirataka class – 1 1st class torpedo boat




      Hayabusa class – 15 1st class torpedo boats




      Shirakumo class — 2 ships




      Akatsuki class – 2 ships




      Harusame class — 7 ships




      Sokol class — 1 ship




      = World War I

      =
      Before and during World War I, Japan established three grades of destroyers - the large (over 1,000 tons) 1st Class or ocean-going type, the medium (600 to 1,000 tons) 2nd Class type and the small (below 600 tons) 3rd Class type. Between 1904 and 1918, Japan built thirty-two 3rd Class destroyers (the Kamikaze class), twenty-two 2nd Class destroyers (the Sakura, Kaba, Momo and Enoki classes) and eight 1st Class destroyers (the Umikaze, Isokaze and Kawakaze classes). They also purchased two further 1st Class destroyers (the Urakaze class) built in the UK by Yarrow.


      Kamikaze class – 32 ships




      Umikaze class — 2 ships




      Sakura class — 2 ships




      Kaba class — 10 ships




      Urakaze class — 2 ships




      Momo class — 4 ships




      Isokaze class — 4 ships




      Acorn class/Kanran class – 2 ships


      (both ships loaned from the Royal Navy from June 1917 to 1919)


      Kawakaze class — 2 ships




      Enoki class — 6 ships




      = The Inter-War Period

      =
      From 1919 onwards, a series of destroyers were built regularly in Japan. No further 3rd Class ships were built after 1909, and only two further classes of 2nd Class ships (the Momi and Wakatake classes) were built by 1923, after which all were 1st Class. The ships of the Wakatake, Kamikaze and Mutsuki classes were initially given numbers rather than names, but names were assigned on 1 August 1928. The numbering system continued after 1928, but were not assigned to ships, which were all named.


      Momi class — 21 ships


      The total of 21 excludes 7 cancelled.
      (Warabi lost in August 1927; Momi, Kaya and Nashi scrapped by 1940, leaving 17 which served in the Pacific War)


      Minekaze class — 15 ships




      Wakatake class — 8 ships


      The total of 8 excludes 5 cancelled in 1922.


      Kamikaze class – 9 ships




      Mutsuki class — 12 ships




      Fubuki class (Special Type)— 20 ships




      Akatsuki class – 4 ships




      Hatsuharu class — 6 ships




      Chidori class — 4 ships


      These four vessels were nominally "torpedo boats". Built under the 1st Naval Armaments Supplement Programme of 1931.


      = The Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II

      =


      Ōtori class — 8 ships


      These eight vessels were nominally "torpedo boats". The total of 8 excludes another 8 cancelled units.


      Shiratsuyu class — 10 ships




      Asashio class — 10 ships




      Kagerō class (Type A) — 19 ships




      Akizuki class (Type B) — 12 ships


      The total of 12 excludes 1 uncompleted (Michitsuki) and 3 cancelled; 21 intended further ships were never ordered.


      Yūgumo class (Type A) — 19 ships


      The total of 19 excludes 8 cancelled.


      Shimakaze class (Type C) — 1 ship


      The total excludes 16 cancelled.


      Matsu class (Type D)— 18 ships




      Tachibana class (Modified Matsu - Type D Kai) — 14 ships


      The total excludes 9 never completed and cancelled units


      Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force




      = Standard Destroyer

      =


      Gleaves class/Asakaze class (DD) — 2 ships transferred 1954 from USA




      Fletcher class/Ariake class (DD) — 2 ships transferred 1959 from USA




      Harukaze class (DD) — 2 ships




      Ayanami class (DDK) — 7 ships




      Murasame class (1958) (DDA) — 3 ships




      Akizuki class (1959) (DD) — 2 ships




      Yamagumo class (DDK) — 6 ships




      Takatsuki class (DDA) — 4 ships




      Minegumo class (DDK) — 3 ships




      Hatsuyuki class (DD) — 12 ships




      Asagiri class (DD) — 8 ships




      Murasame class (1994) (DD) — 9 ships


      (orders for 5 more were replaced by those for the succeeding Takanami class)


      Takanami class (DD) — 5 ships




      Akizuki class (DD) — 4 ships




      Asahi class (DD) — 2 ships




      = Guided Missile Destroyer

      =


      JDS Amatsukaze (DDG) — 1 ship




      Tachikaze class (DDG) — 3 ships




      Hatakaze class (DDG) — 2 ships




      Kongō class (DDG) — 4 ships




      Atago class (DDG) — 2 ships




      Maya class (DDG) — 2 ships




      = Helicopter Destroyer

      =


      Haruna class (DDH) — 2 ships




      Shirane class (DDH) — 2 ships




      Hyūga class (DDH) — 2 ships




      Izumo class (DDH) — 2 ships



      (Re-designated as multi-purpose operation destroyer)


      = Small Escort

      =


      Tachibana class – 1 ship




      Cannon class (DE) — 2 ships transferred 1955 from USA




      JDS Akebono (DE) - 1 ship




      Ikazuchi class (DE) — 2 ships




      Isuzu class (DE)— 4 ships




      Chikugo class (DE)— 11 ships




      JS Ishikari (DE) - 1 ship




      Yubari class (DE)— 2 ships




      Abukuma class (DE)— 6 ships




      Mogami class (FFM)— 6 ships


      (7 ships completed, 3 ships are under construction, 2 more ordered and with plan to construct a total of 12 ships)


      References




      = Bibliography

      =
      Jentschura, Hansgeorg & Jung, Dieter & Mickel, Peter. Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869-1945. Arms & Armour Press, 1977. ISBN 1-85409-525-0.
      Stille, Mark. Imperial Japanese Navy Destroyers 1919-45 (1) – Minekaze to Shiratsuyu Classes. Osprey Publishing (No. 198), 2013. ISBN 978-1-84908-984-5
      Stille, Mark. Imperial Japanese Navy Destroyers 1919-45 (2) – Asashio to Tachibana Classes. Osprey Publishing (No. 202), 2013. ISBN 978-1-84908-987-6
      Stille, Mark. Imperial Japanese Navy Antisubmarine Escorts 1941-45. Osprey Publishing (No. 248), 2017. ISBN 978-1-4728-1816-4
      Watts, Anthony J. Japanese Warships of World War II. Ian Allan Ltd, London, 1966.
      Whitley, M. J. Destroyers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia. Arms & Armour Press, 2000. ISBN 1-85409-521-8.

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