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IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY (JAPAN)

COASTAL FORCES

"H38" type gun boats (10-GO) (1943 - 1944)

10-go 1943

Names

魚雷艇第10号隼艇 - 魚雷艇第26号隼艇 [10-go - 26-go]

魚雷艇第51号隼艇 - 魚雷艇第73号隼艇 [51-go - 73-go]

Builders

Yokosuka K K: 10 - 26-go

Kure K K: 51 - 73-go

Commissioned

1943 - 1945: 10-26-go, 51-73-go

Losses

at least 25-go (25.9.1944), 52-go (12.9.1944), 55-go (12.9.1944), 61-go (12.9.1944), 62-go (12.9.1944), 67-go (12.9.1944)

Transfers

none

Discarding

after 8.1945: some from 10 - 24-go, 26-go, 51-go, 53-go, 54-go, 56 - 60-go, 63 - 66-go, 68-go - 73-go

 

Displacement normal, t

24.8

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

18.0

Breadth, m

4.30

Draught, m

0.73

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Kinsei petrol engines (air-cooled)

Power, h. p.

1400

Max speed, kts

27

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)

220(26)

Armament

completed 1943 - 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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