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KATORI training / escort ship (1969)

Katori 1975

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
かとり [Katori] TV3501   Ishikawajima-Harima, Tokyo 8.12.1967 19.11.1968 10.9.1969 discarded 3.1998

 

Displacement standard, t

3372

Displacement full, t

4100

Length, m

122.0 pp 127.5 oa

Breadth, m

15.0

Draught, m

4.30 max

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 sets Ishikawajima geared steam turbines, 2 Ishikawajima- Foster Wheeler boilers

Power, h. p.

20000

Max speed, kts

25

Fuel, t

oil

Endurance, nm(kts) 7000(18)

Armament

2 x 2 - 76/50 Mk 33, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT, 1 x 4 - 375 71-shiki ASWRL, helicopter deck

Electronic equipment

OPS-2, OPS-15, Mk 34 radars, SQS-4 sonar, NOLR-1B ECM suite

Complement

460 (inc 165 cadets)

 

Project history: Capable of serving as a TS in peacetime and as an escort command ship at wartime. Ordered under the 1966 programme.

Modernizations: early 1980s: - SQS-4 sonar; + OQS-3 sonar

early 1990s: - OPS-15 radar; + OPS-17, OPS-20 radars

Naval service: No significant events.

Katori 1979

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