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OKINOSHIMA minelayer (1936)

Okinoshima 1941

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
沖島 [Okinoshima]     Harima Zosen 9.1934 15.11.1935 9.1936 sunk 11.5.1942

 

Displacement standard, t

4400

Displacement normal, t

5000

Length, m

113.0 pp 119,3 wl 124.5 oa

Breadth, m

15.7

Draught, m

5.49

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 sets geared steam turbines, 4 Kampon boilers

Power, h. p.

9000

Max speed, kts

20

Fuel, t

oil
Endurance, nm(kts) 9000(10)

Armament

2 x 2 - 140/50 3-shiki, 2 x 1 - 76/40 11-shiki, 2 x 2 - 13.2/76, 500 mines, 1 catapult, 1 seaplane (E4N, E5Y, E7K, E8N) 

Electronic equipment 93-shiki hydrophone

Complement

445

Project history: Built under 1st Supplementary programme of 1931. Development of cruiser-minelayer idea, which first representative in Japan became Itsukushima. New ship, in comparison with latter, was much larger, faster and more strongly armed. For the first time there was a catapult and a seaplane. She was estimated by Japanese as successful type of multipurpose ship. Can lay antisubmarine nets. Standard seaplane was E7K.

Modernizations: 1942: + 2x 1-shiki 2-go radars

Naval service: 4.5.1942 Okinoshima was damaged at Tulagi by US carrier aircraft, 11.5.1942 damaged by US submarine S42 and next day has sunk at Rabaul as result of received damages.

Okinoshima

Ivan Gogin, 2008-14