The design of the Murakumo-class destroyers was based on Thorneycroft's two-stack destroyers for the Royal Navy (from 1913 known as the ) also known as the "Thirty Knotters". In particular, they were built to the same plans as Thornycroft's Coquette, Cygnet and Cynthia, to which they were sisterships.David Lyon, The Thornycroft List (1981). Although slightly smaller than the Ikazuchi class, they had the same armaments.
