NAVYPEDIA

Photo

Okitsu Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.  

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
興津 [Okitsu] (ex-Lepanto)		101	CNR, Ancona, Italy	1925	22.5.1927	1927 // 3.1944	surrendered 8.1945, to China 1946 (咸寧 [Hsien Ning])

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	700
Displacement full, t	~ 850
Length, m	62.2
Breadth, m	8.69
Draught, m	2.59
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 water-tube boilers
Power, h. p.	1500
Max speed, kts	15
Fuel, t	oil 75
Endurance, nm(kts)	3500(10)
Armament	1 x 1 - 76/40 11-shiki, 4 x 2 - 25/60 96-shiki, 2 DCT, 2 DCR (36)
Electronic equipment	3-shiki 1-go radar
Complement	184

Standard scale images

Graphics

Project history

Former Italian minelayer Lepanto, scuttled by own crew at Shanghai 9.9.1943. In February, 1944 she was salvaged by Japanese and in March commissioned as gunboat.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Okitsu was 21.3.1945 hard damaged by US Army aircraft, in August, 1945 she surrendered to Allies and transferred to China.



Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.