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JAPAN MARITIME SELF-DEFENCE FORCE (JAPAN)

COASTAL FORCES

9-GO fast attack craft (torpedo) (1957)

9-go 1960

Names

PT809 9[9-go]

Builders

Saunders-Roe, Beaumaris, UK: PT809

Commissioned

9/1957: PT809

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

1972: PT809

Displacement standard, t

50

Displacement full, t

64

Length, m

20.4 pp 21.7 oa

Breadth, m

6.20

Draught, m

1.80 max

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Napier Deltic diesels

Power, h. p.

5000

Max speed, kts

40

Fuel, t

diesel oil 8

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 2 - 533 TT

Electronic equipment

radar

Complement

15

Project history: Similar to British 'Dark' class.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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