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MINE WARFARE SHIPS

101-GO auxiliary minesweepers (1941/1943-1944, 1943)

101-go 1944

104-go 1944

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
第101号掃海特務艇 [101-go] (ex-Flores)     Tandjong Priok Droogdok, Netherlands   1942 6.1943 damaged 17.5.1945, never repaired, to Netherlands 8.1945 (Flores)
第102号掃海特務艇 [102-go] (ex-Fakfak)     Tandjong Priok Droogdok, Netherlands   1942 6.1943 surrendered 8.1945, to Netherlands 8.1945
第103号掃海特務艇 [103-go] (ex-Garoet)     Tandjong Priok Droogdok, Netherlands   1942 5.1943 surrendered 8.1945, to Netherlands 8.1945
第104号掃海特務艇 [104-go] (ex-HMV19, ex-Djember)     Soerabaja Droogdok, Netherlands   1940 1941 // 2.1943 sunk 12.4.1945
第105号掃海特務艇 [105-go] (ex-Grissee)     Tandjong Priok Droogdok, Netherlands   1942 8.1943 damaged 25.5.1945, never repaired
第106号掃海特務艇 [106-go] (ex-HMV20, ex-Djombang)     Soerabaja Droogdok, Netherlands   1941 1941 // 8.1943 surrendered 8.1945, to Netherlands 8.1945 (Djombang)
第107号掃海特務艇 [107-go] (ex-HMV21, ex-Enggano)     Tandjong Priok Droogdok, Netherlands   1941 1941 // 8.1944 surrendered 8.1945, to Netherlands 8.1945 (Enggano)

 

Displacement standard, t

170

Displacement normal, t

175

Length, m

32.5 wl 34.8 oa

Breadth, m

5.69

Draught, m

1.91

No of shafts

1

Machinery

101 - 103-go, 105 - 107-go: 1 Enterprise diesel

104-go: 1 Benz diesel

Power, h. p.

101 - 103-go, 105 - 107-go: 360

104-go: 350

Max speed, kts

101 - 103-go, 105 - 107-go: 12.5

104-go: 10.5

Fuel, t

diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

3 x 1 - 25/60 96-shiki, 1 x 1 - 13.2/76, 1 DCR (6), mechanical minesweeping gear

Complement

14

Project history: Wa101 group (Wa101-103, 105) were laid down on Dutch India yards as police boats of "FG" class for colonial administration. 2.3.1942 hulls were blown up on slipways by Dutches. Subsequently they were completed by Japanese.

Wa104 group (Wa104, 106, 107) were former Dutch police boats, scuttled by crews 2.3.1942. They were salvaged and commissioned by IJN.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Wa101 was lost on mine 13.10.1943 near Madura, subsequently she was raised and commissioned again, 17.5.1945 she was destroyed in dock at Surabaya by US carrier aircraft, returned to Netherlands in unrepaired condition, later repaired and transferred to Indonesia in 1950. Wa105 was sunk 25.5.1945 by British submarine Trenchant off Java. Wa104 was sunk 12.4.1945 by British submarine Stygian SW off Bali.

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