Japanese destroyer Kuri

The Japanese destroyer Kuri (栗) was one of 21 Momi-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the late 1910s. She struck a mine off of Pusan, Korea, in October 1945 and was subsequently stricken from the naval list.

Design and description
The Momi class was designed with higher speed and better seakeeping than the preceding Enoki-class destroyer second-class destroyers. The ships had an overall length of 280 ft and were 275 ft between perpendiculars. They had a beam of 26 ft, and a mean draft of 8 ft. The Momi-class ships displaced 850 LT at standard load and 1020 LT at deep load. Kuri was powered by two Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft using steam provided by three Kampon water-tube boilers. The turbines were designed to produce 21500 shp to give the ships a speed of 36 kn. The ships carried a maximum of 275 LT of fuel oil which gave them a range of 3000 nmi at 15 kn. Their crew consisted of 110 officers and crewmen.

The main armament of the Momi-class ships consisted of three 12 cm Type 3 guns in single mounts; one gun forward of the well deck, one between the two funnels, and the last gun atop the aft superstructure. The guns were numbered '1' to '3' from front to rear. The ships carried two above-water twin sets of 533 mm torpedo tubes; one mount was in the well deck between the forward superstructure and the bow gun and the other between the aft funnel and aft superstructure.

Construction and career
Kuri, built at the Kure Naval Arsenal in Hiroshima, Japan, was launched on March 19, 1920, and completed on April 30, 1920. During the Sino-Japanese War she supported the naval landing at Anqing during the Battle of Wuhan. At the start of the Pacific War she took part in the blockade of Corregidor island and Manila during the Battle of the Philippines and spent the rest of the conflict on patrol duty convoy escort. She was surrendered at Qingdao at the end of the war, but struck a mine off of Pusan on October 8, 1945, while on minesweeping duty. The ship was officially stricken from the naval list on October 25.