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Okinoshima

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
沖島 [Okinoshima]			Harima Zosen	9.1934	15.11.1935	9.1936	sunk 11.5.1942

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	4400
Displacement normal, t	5000
Length, m	113.0 pp 119,3 wl 124.5 oa
Breadth, m	15.7
Draught, m	5.49
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets geared steam turbines, 4 Kampon boilers
Power, h. p.	9000
Max speed, kts	20
Fuel, t	oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	9000(10)
Armament	2 x 2 - 140/50 3-shiki, 2 x 1 - 76/40 11-shiki, 2 x 2 - 13.2/76, 500 mines, 1 catapult, 1 seaplane (E4N, E5Y, E7K, E8N)
Electronic equipment	93-shiki hydrophone
Complement	445

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Project history

Built under 1st Supplementary programme of 1931. Development of cruiser-minelayer idea, which first representative in Japan became Itsukushima. New ship, in comparison with latter, was much larger, faster and more strongly armed. For the first time there was a catapult and a seaplane. She was estimated by Japanese as successful type of multipurpose ship. Can lay antisubmarine nets. Standard seaplane was E7K.

Modernizations

1942: + 2x 1-shiki 2-go radars

Naval service

4.5.1942 Okinoshima was damaged at Tulagi by US carrier aircraft, 11.5.1942 damaged by US submarine S42 and next day has sunk at Rabaul as result of received damages.