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Nasami

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
那沙美 [Nasami]			Harima, Aioi	1.1933	26.3.1934	9.1934	sunk 1.4.1944
夏島 [Natsushima]			Ishikawajima, Tokyo	12.1931	24.3.1933	7.1933	sunk 22.2.1944

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	450
Displacement full, t	510
Length, m	67.0 pp 70.0 wl
Breadth, m	7.50
Draught, m	1.90
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 diesels
Power, h. p.	2300
Max speed, kts	19
Fuel, t	diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	2100(10)
Armament	2 x 1 - 76/40 11-shiki, 1 x 1 - 13.2/76, 120 mines or net or mechanical minesweeping gear
Complement	74

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Project history

Built under 1st Supplementary programme of 1931. Development of Tsubame class, changes have concerned mostly machinery: instead of triple expansion steam engines on predecessors, Nasami class ships had diesels. Carried antisubmarine nets or minesweeping equipment.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Natsushima 22.2.1944 was sunk at New Ireland by US destroyers Charles Ausbume, Dyson and Stanly. Nasami 30.3.1944 was damaged in Rabaul by US carrier aircraft and in two days foundered from received damages.