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HASHIDATE gunboats (1940-1941)

Hashidate 1941

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
橋立 [Hashidate]     Sakurajima, Osaka 20.2.1939 23.12.1939 30.6.1940 sunk 22.5.1944
宇治 [Uji]     Sakurajima, Osaka 20.1.1940 26.9.1940 30.4.1941 surrendered 8.1945, to China 1946 (漳州 [Chang Chi])

 

Displacement standard, t

999

Displacement full, t

1110

Length, m

76.0 pp 78.5 wl 80.5 oa

Breadth, m

9.70

Draught, m

2.45

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 sets geared steam turbines, 2 Kampon boilers

Power, h. p.

4600

Max speed, kts

19.5

Fuel, t

oil
Endurance, nm(kts) 3460(14)

Armament

1 x 2 - 120/45 10-shiki, 1 x 1 - 120/45 10-shiki, 2 x 2 - 25/60 96-shiki

Complement

170

Project history: Built under 3rd Supplementary programme of 1937. Intended for operations in inshore waters and river mouths and had shallow draught.

Modernizations: 1943 - 1944, both: - 2 x 2 - 25/60; + 2 x 3 - 25/60 96-shiki, 3 x 1 - 25/60 96-shiki, 2 DCT, presumably radar

Naval service: Hashidate was sunk 22.5.1944 by US submarine Picuda off Pratas Island. Uji was damaged 10.4.1945 on a mine, in 1945 she has surrendered to Allies at Shanghai and was transferred to China.

Hashidate

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