High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Wakatake class destroyers ( , Wakatakegata kuchikukan?) was a class of eight 2nd-class destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy.The medium-sized Wakatake-class destroyers were a follow-on to the Momi class destroyer as part of the Imperial Japanese Navy's 8-6 Fleet Program from fiscal 1921 as a lower cost accompaniment to the larger Minekaze-class destroyers. The class was originally planned to consist of twenty-three vessels, but due to the Washington Naval Treaty, as well as budgetary limitations, the final number was reduced to eight. The Wakatake class was the last class to be rated second class and all future destroyers were designed larger. It was planned that the Wakatake class ships should have names, but upon completion they were given numbers. This proved to be extremely unpopular with the crews and was a constant source of confusion in communications, so in 1928, names were assigned.