Uraga Dock Company
"Mochizuki", built by the Uraga Dock Company at their shipyard in Uraga, was laid down on 23 March 1926, launched on 28 April 1927 and completed on 31 October 1927. Originally commissioned simply as "Destroyer No. 33", the ship was assigned the name "Mochizuki" on 1 August 1928. In the late 1930s, the ship participated in combat in the Second Sino-Japanese War, covering the landings of Japanese troops in central and southern China.