Shimushu 1940
Shimushu 1944
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| 占守 [Shimushu] | Mitsui, Tamano | 11/1938 | 13.12.1939 | 6.1940 | surrendered 8.1945, to Soviet Union 7.1947 (έΚ-31 [EK-31]) | ||
| 八丈 [Hachijo] | Sasebo K K | 8.1939 | 10.4.1940 | 3.1941 | damaged 11.5.1945, never repaired | ||
| 国後 [Kunashiri] | Tsurumi, Yokohama | 3.1939 | 6.5.1940 | 10.1940 | surrendered 8.1945, wrecked 4.6.1946 | ||
| 石垣 [Ishigaki] | Mitsui, Tamano | 8.1939 | 14.9.1940 | 2.1941 | sunk 31.5.1944 |
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Displacement standard, t |
860 |
|
Displacement full, t |
1020 |
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Length, m |
72.5 pp 76.2 wl 77.7 oa |
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Breadth, m |
9.10 |
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Draught, m |
3.05 |
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No of shafts |
2 |
|
Machinery |
2 diesels |
|
Power, h. p. |
4200 |
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Max speed, kts |
19.7 |
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Fuel, t |
diesel oil |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | 8000(16) |
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Armament |
3 x 1 - 120/45 3-shiki, 2 x 2 - 25/60 96-shiki, 2 DCT (12), mechanical minesweeping gear |
|
Complement |
150 |
Project history: Escorts (Kaibo Kan) of A type were built under 3rd Supplementary programme of 1937. Prototype of all subsequent Japanese escorts. 4 more ships of this class were provided by the programme of 1942 (Nos 790-793), but work on them did not start.
Modernizations: 5.1942, all: - minesweeping gear; DC stowage was increased to 36; + 93-shiki sonar
8.1943, all: + 1 x 1 - 76 ASW DCT, DC stowage was increased to 60, + 2-shiki 2-go radar
late 1944, all survived: - 2 x 2 - 25/60; + 5 x 3 - 25/60 96-shiki, 3-shiki 1-go radar
Naval service:
Ishigaki 31.5.1944
was sunk off Kuriles by US submarine Herring.
Shimushu 25.11.1944 was damaged by
US submarine
Haddo. Hachijo 11.5.1945 was hard damaged on a mine
and was not under repair. Kunashiri was wrecked 4.6.1946
during repatriation service off Omaezaki, Suruga Wan, abandoned 25.6.1946 and
stricken. In 1947 Shimushu was transferred to the USSR
on reparation.
Shimushu
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