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JAPAN MARITIME SELF-DEFENCE FORCE (JAPAN)

COASTAL FORCES

7-GO torpedo boats (1957-1958)

7-go 1960

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
7号 [7-go] PT807   Mitsubishi Zosen, Shimonoseki 8/1956 31.10.1957 12/1957 stricken 12.1972
8 [8-go] PT808   Mitsubishi Zosen, Shimonoseki 8/1956 15.11.1957 1/1958 stricken 2.1974

 

Displacement standard, t

100

Displacement full, t

135

Length, m

34.0

Breadth, m

7.50

Draught, m

1.20

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 Mitsubishi YV20ZC15/20 diesels

Power, h. p.

6000

Max speed, kts

33

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

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

Electronic equipment

OPS-4C radar, OQS-1 sonar

Complement

27

Project history: Authorized under the 1954 programme. This class was fitted with an improved sonar dome which offered less resistance at high speed than the type used in the Type 1. From January 1968 until December 1972, No 7wasfiatifl with an Ishikawajima-Harima T64 marine gas turbine for test purposes. Bagfl units were deleted in 1973.

Modernizations: 1.1968, 7-go: one diesel was replaced by Ishikawajima-Harima T64 gas turbine.

Naval service: No significant events.

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