Yūgiri (夕霧, "Evening Mist") was one of six Murakumo-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the late 1890s.

Authorized under the 1896 naval program,[2] Yūgiri was laid down on 1 November 1897 by John I. Thornycroft & Company at Chiswick, England.

[2][3] During the Battle of Tsushima, she took part in the 5th Destroyer Division's torpedo attack against the Imperial Russian Navy squadron on the evening of 27 May 1905.

[6] The impact bent Yūgiri′s bow to starboard, leaving her in great danger of sinking, but after an hour the crisis passed and she was able to get back underway and proceed at 3 knots (5.6 km/h; 3.5 mph) to Sasebo, Japan, which she reached on the evening of 28 May.

[9] Later that year, she took part[citation needed] in the Japanese seizure of the German Empire′s colonial possessions in the Caroline, Mariana, and Marshall Islands.