Japanese destroyer Kiku (1920)

	Sister ship Kuri at anchor, 1937
History
Empire of Japan
Name	Kiku
Builder	Kawasaki Dockyard Co., Kobe
Launched	13 October 1920
Completed	10 December 1920
Renamed	As Patrol Boat No. 31, 1 April 1944
Reclassified	As patrol boat, 1 April 1940
Stricken	10 May 1944
Fate	Sunk by American aircraft, 31 March 1944
General characteristics (as built)
Type	Momi-class destroyer
Displacement	850 long tons (864 t) (normal); 1,020 long tons (1,036 t) (deep load);
Length	275 ft (83.8 m) (pp); 280 ft (85.3 m) (o/a);
Beam	26 ft (7.9 m)
Draft	8 ft (2.4 m)
Installed power	3 × Kampon water-tube boilers; 21,500 shp (16,000 kW);
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 × geared steam turbines
Speed	36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range	3,000 nmi (5,600 km; 3,500 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	110
Armament	3 × single 12 cm (4.7 in) guns; 2 × twin 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes;

The Japanese destroyer Kiku (菊) was one of 21 Momi-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the late 1910s. She was converted into a patrol boat in 1940 and spent the Pacific War on escort duties, mostly in Japanese waters. The ship was sunk by American carrier aircraft in early 1944.