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SHIMACHIDORI patrol craft (1933/1949)

Shimachidori 1950

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
シマキドリ [Shimachidori] (ex-870-go) PS50, 1950- PS112   Tsurumi, Yokohama   1933 1933 // 1949 discarded 1963-69

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement full, t

145

Length, m

39.2 pp 40.1 wl

Breadth, m

5.59

Draught, m

1.30

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 diesels

Power, h. p.

520

Max speed, kts

13

Fuel, t

diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)  
Armament

1 x 1 - 25/60 96-shiki?

Electronic equipment presumably SO radar

Complement

 

 

Project history: Former 150-ton (1933) type aircraft salvage vessel, converted after WWII to patrol craft.

 

Modernizations: None.

 

Naval service: No significant events.

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