Mizuho 1941
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| 瑞穂 [Mizuho] | Kawasaki, Kobe | 16.5.1937 | 16.5.1938 | 25.2.1939 | sunk 2.5.1942 |
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Displacement standard, t |
10929 |
|
Displacement full, t |
12150 |
|
Length, m |
174.0 pp 183.6 wl 192.5 oa |
|
Breadth, m |
18.8 |
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Draught, m |
7.08 |
|
No of shafts |
2 |
|
Machinery |
2 diesels |
|
Power, h. p. |
15200 |
|
Max speed, kts |
22 |
|
Fuel, t |
diesel oil 1000 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | 8000(16) |
| Armament |
3 x 2 - 127/40 89-shiki, 6 x 2 - 25/60 96-shiki, 24 seaplanes (E4N, E7K, E8N, E10A, E11A) or (12 seaplanes (E4N, E7K, E8N, E10A, E11A), 12 À-gata midget submarines) |
|
Complement |
Aircraft facilities: There were 4 catapults. Seaplanes based on deck and in hangar. There were 2 lifts. 8 additional seaplanes carried as reserve. Aircraft fuel stowage was 900 t.
Project history: Design was created on the basis of drawings of seaplane tenders of Chitose class, ship was built under 3rd Supplementary Programme of 1937. Main differences concerned machinery structure: instead of combined diesel-turbine, installed on a prototype, Mizuho have been equipped by only diesels. Though it has called appreciable decrease in a speed, it was possible to increase hangar size, having prolonged it fwd. The number of carried spare seaplanes has increased to 8. A hinged platform as that on Mizuho was not, and pairs of pylons were connected among themselves by bridges.
Modernizations: early 1942: + 3 x 2 - 25/60 96-shiki
Naval
service:2.5.1942
Mizuho was sunk at cape Omisaka (Honshu) by American
submarine Drum.
Mizuho
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