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IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY (JAPAN)

COASTAL FORCES

"15-m" type river motor gun boats (1938-1939)

Names

1035汽艇 - 1038汽艇[1035-go - 1038-go] and others (40 units)

Builders

Yokohama Yacht Co.

Sumidagawa Co., Tokyo

at all: 40 units

Commissioned

1938 - 1939: 40 units

Losses

unknown

Transfers

none

Discarding

unknown

 

Displacement normal, t

~ 10

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

15.0

Breadth, m

3.30

Draught, m

0.58

No of shafts

1 (23 units) or 2 (17 units)

Machinery

1 Hispano-Suiza or 1 Lorraine or 2 Buda (on 17 units) petrol engines

Power, h. p.

120

Max speed, kts

11

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 12.7/70 (3 units) or 1 x 1 - 7.7/80 (37 units)

Complement  

Project history: Designed for service on Chinese rivers and had wooden hulls. Rated as Naikatei type 1.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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