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JAPAN MARITIME SELF-DEFENCE FORCE (JAPAN)

COASTAL FORCES

1-GO fast attack craft (torpedo) (1956)

1-go 1960

Names

PT1-6 1号 - 6[1-go - 6-go], 9.1957- PT801-806 1号 - 6[1-go - 6-go]

Builders

Hitachi Zosen, Kanagawa: PT1, 2

Mitsubishi Zosen, Shimonoseki: PT3, 4

Azuma Zosen: PT5, 6

Commissioned

10-12/1956: PT1-6

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

3/1970: PT801, 802

3/1972: PT803-806

 

Displacement standard, t

PT801, 802: 75

PT803, 804: 70

PT805, 806: 75

Displacement full, t

PT801, 802: 97

PT803, 804: 92

PT805, 806: 98

Length, m

PT801, 802, 805, 806: 25.0

PT803, 804: 26.0

Breadth, m

PT801, 802, 805, 806: 6.50

PT803, 804: 6.80

Draught, m

PT801, 802, 805, 806: 1.20

PT803, 804: 1.10

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Mitsubishi YV20ZC15/20 diesels

Power, h. p.

4000

Max speed, kts

PT801, 802, 805, 806: 30

PT803, 804: 31

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 2 - 533 TT, 2 x 4 - 178 Mousetrap Mk 20 ASWRL

Electronic equipment

OPS-4C radar, OQS-1 sonar

Complement

18

Project history: Authorized in the 1953 programme, MTBs with a little ASW capability. Sonar domes offered considerable resistance at high speed. Nos 1 and 2 had wooden hulls, 3 and 4 aluminium alloy hulls and 5 and 6 steel hulls.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: All were converted in 1970-1972 to Yard Craft Special Auxiliaries (YAS)

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