(DD) Fubuki Class

Specifications:

Type: Destroyer
Displacement: 1,750 long tons (1,780 t) standard
2,050 long tons (2,080 t) re-built
Length: 111.96 m (367.3 ft) pp,
115.3 m (378 ft) waterline
118.41 m (388.5 ft) overall
Beam: 10.4 m (34 ft 1 in)
Draft: 3.2 m (10 ft 6 in)
Propulsion: 2 shaft Kampon geared turbines
4 (Groups I & II) or 3 (Group III) boilers
50,000 hp (37,000 kW)
Speed: 38 knots (44 mph; 70 km/h)
Range: 5,000 nm at 14 knots
(9,200 km at 26 km/h)
Complement: 219

Armament:

Armament: • 6 × Type 3 127 mm 50 caliber naval guns (3×2)
• 2 ×Type 93 13mm machine guns (2×1)
• 9 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes (3×3)
• 18 × Type 91 torpedoes
• 18 × depth charges

History:

The Fubuki class destroyers (吹雪型駆逐艦, Fubukigata kuchikukan?) was a class of twenty four destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy.[1] The Fubuki class has been called "the world's first modern destroyer."[2] The Fubuki class not only set a new standard for Japanese vessels, but for destroyers around the world. At a time when British and American destroyers had changed little from their unturreted, single-gun mounts and light weaponry, the Japanese destroyers were bigger, more powerfully armed, and faster than anything that any other fleet possessed. They remained formidable opponents to the end of World War II, despite being much older than many of their adversaries.[3]

This information and more can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fubuki_class_destroyer