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101-go auxiliary minelayer (1938/1942)

101-go 1942

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
第101号敷設特務艇 [101-go] (ex-Barlight)   1005 Lobnitz, Renfrew, UK 1938 9.9.1938 1938 // 9.1942 captured 8.1945, to China 1947

   

Displacement standard, t

730

Displacement normal, t

900

Length, m

45.7

Breadth, m

9.83

Draught, m

2.90

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 2 coupled boilers

Power, h. p.

850

Max speed, kts

10

Fuel, t

coal
Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 76/40 11-shiki, 3 x 2 - 25/60 96-shiki, 40 mines or 2 DCR (16)

Complement

63

Project history: Ex-British boom vessel Barlight (Bar class), 19.12.1941 scuttled by crew in Hong Kong. Sne was salvaged by Japanese and after repair entered service with IJN.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

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