"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 Tsingtao 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 25th.