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IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY (JAPAN)

COASTAL FORCES

"H35" type motor gun boats (1943-1945)

27-go 1943

Names

魚雷艇第27号隼艇 - 魚雷艇第32号隼艇 [27-go - 32-go]

魚雷艇第201号隼艇 - 魚雷艇第217号隼艇 [201-go - 217-go]

Builders

Yokosuka K K: 27 - 32-go

Kure K K: 201 - 217-go

Commissioned

1943 - 1945: 27-32-go, 201-217-go

Losses

at least 28-go (18.5.1945)

Transfers

none

Discarding

after 8.1945: some from 27-go, 29 - 32-go, 201 - 217-go

 

Displacement normal, t

25

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

18.0

Breadth, m

4.30

Draught, m

0.74

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 71-gata petrol engines

Power, h. p.

1840

Max speed, kts

34

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)

290(33)

Armament

completed 1944 - 1945: 3 x 1 - 25/60 96-shiki or 1 x 3 - 25/60 96-shiki, 4 DCR (4)

completed mid-1945: 1 x 1 - 25/60 96-shiki or 1 x 1 - 13.2/76, 2 - 450 TT

Complement

7

Project history: Designs were developed on the basis of type B (Otsu-Gata) MTBs of T35 and T38 series respectively. Since 1945 they received torpedo armament and re-rated to MTBs (Raitei).

Modernizations: from mid-1945, most survived: were armed with 1 x 1 - 25/60 96-shiki or 1 x 1 - 13.2/76, 2 - 450 TT.

Naval service: No significant events

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