NANKAI gunboats (1944)

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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, t	2400
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, t	diesel 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 equipment	3-shiki 1-go radar
Complement	120

Standard scale images

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