9-go 1944
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| 第1号輸送艦 [1-go] | Mitsubishi, Yokohama | 1944 | 5.1944 | sunk 27.7.1944 | |||
| 第2号輸送艦 [2-go] | Mitsubishi, Yokohama | 1944 | 6.1944 | sunk 5.8.1944 | |||
| 第3号輸送艦 [3-go] | Kure K K | 1944 | 6.1944 | sunk 14.9.1944 | |||
| 第4号輸送艦 [4-go] | Kure K K | 1944 | 6.1944 | sunk 4.8.1944 | |||
| 第5号輸送艦 [5-go] | Kure K K | 1944 | 8.1944 | sunk 14.9.1944 | |||
| 第6号輸送艦 [6-go] | Kure K K | 1944 | 8.1944 | sunk 25.11.1944 | |||
| 第7号輸送艦 [7-go] | Mitsubishi, Yokohama | 1944 | 8.1944 | sunk 27.12.1944 | |||
| 第8号輸送艦 [8-go] | Mitsubishi, Yokohama | 1944 | 9.1944 | sunk 24.12.1944 | |||
| 第9号輸送艦 [9-go] | Kure K K | 1944 | 9.1944 | surrendered 8.1945, to USA 1947, BU | |||
| 第10号輸送艦 [10-go] | Kure K K | 1944 | 9.1944 | sunk 25.11.1944 | |||
| 第11号輸送艦 [11-go] | Kure K K | 1944 | 11.1944 | sunk 7.12.1944 | |||
| 第12号輸送艦 [12-go] | Kure K K | 1944 | 11.1944 | sunk 13.12.1944 | |||
| 第13号輸送艦 [13-go] | Mitsubishi, Yokohama | 1944 | 11.1944 | surrendered 8.1945, to Soviet Union 11.1946 (netlayer Òþìåíü-Óëà [Tyumen'-Ula]) | |||
| 第14号輸送艦 [14-go] | Kure K K | 1944 | 12.1944 | sunk 15.1.1945 | |||
| 第15号輸送艦 [15-go] | Kure K K | 1944 | 12.1944 | sunk 17.1.1945 | |||
| 第16号輸送艦 [16-go] | Mitsubishi, Yokohama | 1944 | 12.1944 | surrendered 8.1945, to China 8.1947 (武夷 [Wu Yi]) | |||
| 第17号輸送艦 [17-go] | Kure K K | 1944 | 2.1945 | sunk 2.4.1945 | |||
| 第18号輸送艦 [18-go] | Kure K K | 1944 | 2.1945 | sunk 18.3.1945 | |||
| 第19号輸送艦 [19-go] | Kure K K | 1945 | 5.1945 | surrendered 8.1945, to United Kingdom 11.1947, BU | |||
| 第20号輸送艦 [20-go] | Kure K K | 1945 | 4.1945 | surrendered 8.1945, wrecked 25.9.1946 | |||
| 第21号輸送艦 [21-go] | Kure K K | 1945 | 7.1945 | sunk 10.8.1945 | |||
| 第22号輸送艦 [22-go] | Kure K K | 25.4.1945 | --- | cancelled 6.1945 |
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Displacement standard, t |
1500 |
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Displacement normal, t |
1800 |
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Length, m |
89.0 pp 94.0 wl 96.0 oa |
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Breadth, m |
10.2 |
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Draught, m |
3.60 |
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No of shafts |
1 |
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Machinery |
1 set geared steam turbine, 2 boilers |
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Power, h. p. |
9500 |
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Max speed, kts |
22 |
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Fuel, t |
oil |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | 4700(18) |
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Armament |
1 - 7-go: 1 x 2 - 127/40 89-shiki, 3 x 3 - 25/60 96-shiki, 1 x 2 - 25/60 96-shiki, 4 x 1 - 25/60 96-shiki, 4 DCT (42) 8 - 21-go: 1 x 2 - 127/40 89-shiki, 5 x 3 - 25/60 96-shiki, 1 x 2 - 25/60 96-shiki, 9 x 1 - 25/60 96-shiki, 5 x 1 - 13.2/76, 4 DCT (42) |
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Military load |
1 - 16-go: 5 Daihatsu 14m landing craft + 260 t of cargo or 7 amphibious tanks + 220 t of cargo or 500 t of cargo + 480 men 17 - 21-go: 5 Daihatsu 14m landing craft + 260 t of cargo or 7 amphibious tanks + 220 t of cargo or 500 t of cargo + 480 men or 2 Koryu midget submarines or 6 Kaiten human torpedoes |
| Electronic equipment | 2-shiki 2-go radar, 93-shiki sonar, 93-shiki hydrophone |
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Complement |
Project history: Fast landing transports, designed specially for supply delivery to isolated island garrisons. They had original enough hull with "inverse" deck sheer: at aft end the deck was smoothly dropped to a water-line that allowed to launch vehicles and landing crafts by two special roller ways. Disemarkation could be effected both on stop, and on up to 16kts speed. For cargo storage ships were arranged with two holds amidships. Construction was as much as possible simplified for simplification of building.
The order for such 46 ships has been given out in September, 1943. Till the end of war 21 ships were commissioned, building of one (Ò22) was suspended in June, 1945 in 90% availability. Orders for 24 more were cancelled in May, 1945.
Modernizations: 9.1944, all completed and survived: + 2 x 3 - 25/60 96-shiki, 5 x 1 - 25/60 96-shiki, 5 x 1 - 13.2/76
1945, all completed and survived: military load can include 2 Koryu midget submarines or 6 Kaiten human torpedoes
1945, many survived: + 3-shiki 1-go radar
Naval service: Ò1 was sunk 27.7.1944 by US carrier aircraft off Palau. Ò4 was sunk 4.8.1944 by US carrier aircraft off Chichijima. Ò2 was sunk 5.8.1944 by US carrier aircraft off Chichijima. Ò5 was sunk 14.9.1944 by US carrier aircraft off Mindanao. Ò3 was sunk 15.9.1944 by US submarine Guavina off Mindanao. Ò6 and Ò10 were sunk 25.11.1944 by US carrier aircraft in Balanacan harbour. Ò11 was sunk 7.12.1944 by US aircraft off Leyte. Ò12 was sunk 13.12.1944 by US submarine Pintado in 200nm SE off Takao. Ò8 was sunk 24.12.1944 by US destroyers Case and Roe off Chichijima. T7 was sunk 27.12.1944 by US destroyers Dunlap, Fanning and Cummings off Kazan. Ò14 was sunk 15.1.1945 by US carrier aircraft off Takao. Ò15 was sunk 17.1.1945 by US submarine Tautog off Kagoshima, Kyushu. T18 was sunk 18.3.1945 by US submarine Springer near Mutsurejima, NW part of Kyushu. Ò17 was sunk 2.4.1945 by US carrier aircraft off Amami. Ò21 was hard damaged 9.8.1945 by US Army aircraft and sunk next day off Tsuwajima.
T20 was used in repatriation service and ran aground 25.9.1946 off Chipei-Hsiaotao (Pescadores).
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