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NANKAI gunboats (1944)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
南海 [Nankai] (ex-Regulus)     Sourabaya Droogdok, Netherlands / Japan 1941 21.5.1943 6.1944 sunk 16.7.1945
南進 [Nanshin] (ex-Ram)     Tandjong Priok Droogdok, Netherlands / Japan 1941 10.12.1941 --- BU incomplete 1946


Technical data


Displacement standard, t2400
Displacement full, t 
Length, m

77.2 pp 85.8 oa

Breadth, m

11.0

Draught, m

3.80

No of shafts

2

Machinery

diesels

Power, h. p.

4800

Max speed, kts

18

Fuel, tdiesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

Nankai: 2 x 2 - 120/45 10-shiki, 2 x 2 - 25/60 96-shiki, 4 DCT, mines

Nanshin: 3 x 1 - 76/40 11-shiki, 2 x 2 - 25/60 96-shiki, 4 DCT, mines

Electronic equipment3-shiki 1-go radar
Complement120


Standard scale images


<i>Nanshin</i>
Nanshin


Project history

The Dutch minelayers Ram and Regulus, laid down in 1941 in Indonesia. Before capture of latter by Japanese Ram was launched and in February, 1942 incomplete hull was towed to Tjilajap, where it has been scuttled 2.3.1942. After some time hull was raised by Japanese, renamed Nanshin and conversion to gunboat was started. To the end of war of work had not been completed. Sister-ship Regulus at the moment of capture by Japanese was in dock in Surabaya. She was completed by Japanese and commissioned as gunboat Nankai.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Nanshin 16.7.1945 was sunk in 150nm W off Surabaya by American submarine Blenny.