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Ships

Names	Builders	Commissioned	Losses	Transfers	Discarding
魚雷艇第1号隼艇 [1-go]	Baglietto, Varazze, Italy: 1-go	1941: 1-go	1-go (1944)	none	none

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	26
Displacement full, t
Length, m	18.0
Breadth, m	4.50
Draught, m	0.82
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Isotta-Fraschini petrol engines
Power, h. p.	1840
Max speed, kts	33
Fuel, t	petrol
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	2 x 1 - 20/65 98-shiki, 2 x 1 - 7.7/80, 2 DCR (2)
Complement	8

Standard scale images

Project history

1-go was delivered in 1940 with 2 main engines (2 x 1150 hp) and 2 cruising Alfa Romeo engines (2 x 100 hp) reaching 50 kts. Main engines power was de-rated and cruising engines removed after trials before commissioning in 1941. Armament before commissioning consisted of 1 MG and 2 TT. Had wooden hull with planning step.  First Japanese MGB.

Design of H2 type was developed on the basis of Italian-built patrol boat 1-go. Steel hull form was changed from planning step to V-shaped. Unlike a prototype, they had no auxiliary cruising engines.

Since 1945 survived boats received torpedo armament and re-rated to MTBs (Raitei).

Modernizations

1945, most survived: were armed with 1 x 1 - 25/60 96-shiki or 1 x 1 - 13.2/76, 2 - 450 TT.

Naval service

No significant events