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Momo

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
桃 [Momo]			Sasebo K K	2.1916	12.10.1916	12.1916	sold 1940
樫 [Kashi], 1943- 鴈 [Kari]			Maizuru K K	3.1916	1.12.1916	3.1917	to Manchukuo 1937-1943 (海王 [Hai Wei]), sunk 10.10.1944
檜 [Hinoki]			Maizuru K K	5.1916	25.12.1916	3.1917	sold 1940
柳 [Yanagi]			Sasebo K K	10.1916	24.2.1917	5.1917	hulk 4.1940

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	835
Displacement full, t	1080
Length, m	83.8 pp 85.6 wl
Breadth, m	7.70
Draught, m	2.30
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Curtis geared steam turbines, 4 Kampon boilers
Power, h. p.	16000
Max speed, kts	31.5
Fuel, t	coal 92 + oil 212
Endurance, nm(kts)	2400(15)
Armament	3 x 1 - 120/40 41-shiki, 2 x 1 - 7.7/87, 2 x 3 - 450 TT
Complement	110

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Project history

So-called 2nd class destroyers and first Japanese-built destroyers equipped with geared turbines and triple TTs. As a whole they have appeared rather successful and became founders of large series of ships built in 1920th.

Modernizations

1943, Kari: after re-commissioning was rearmed with (1 - 2) x 1 - 120/40 41-shiki, some 25/60 96-shiki, DCTs and DCRs, 93-shiki sonar (presumably)

Naval service Kashi in 1937-1943 served in Manchkuo Navy as Hai Wei, then she has been returned (rated as escort) and 10.10.1944 sunk by American carrier aircraft (TF.38) off O

Kashi in 1937-1943 served in Manchkuo Navy as Hai Wei, then she has been returned (rated as escort) and 10.10.1944 sunk by American carrier aircraft (TF.38) off Okinawa. Last ship, Yanagi, was broken up in 1947.