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IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY (JAPAN)

COASTAL FORCES

"H38M" type gun boats (74-GO) (1944-1945)

74-go 1944

Names

魚雷艇第74号隼艇 - 魚雷艇第100号隼艇 [74-go - 100-go]

Builders

Kure K K: 74-100-go

Commissioned

1944 - 1945: 74-100-go

Losses

unknown

Transfers

none

Discarding

after 8.1945: some

 

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 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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