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101-GO minesweepers (1944)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
第101号掃海艇 [101-go] (ex-Taitam, ex-Portland)     Taikoo, Hong Kong, UK / Japan 7.1941 20.2.1943 4.1944 sunk 12.1.1945
第102号掃海艇 [102-go] (ex-Waglan, ex-Seaford)     Taikoo, Hong Kong, UK / Japan 7.1941 20.3.1943 9.1944 surrendered 8.1945, to United Kingdom 11.1947, BU


Technical data


Displacement standard, t580
Displacement normal, t

678

Length, m

54.9

Breadth, m

6.69

Draught, m

3.12 deep load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers

Power, h. p.

2200

Max speed, kts

15.8

Fuel, t

oil 150

Endurance, nm(kts)1900(15.7)
Armament

1 x 1 - 120/45 3-shiki, 2 x 2 - 25/60 96-shiki, 4 x 1 - 25/60 96-shiki, 2 DCT (36), mechanical minesweeping gear

Electronic equipment3-shiki 1-go radar, type 128 sonar
Complement

60



Standard scale images


<i>101-go</i> 1944
101-go 1944


Project history

Minesweepers of Bangor class, laid down in Hong Kong for Royal Navy 22.7.1941. At the moment of city occupancy by Japanese troops in December, 1941 they were on the stocks in a low readiness level. They were completed for IJN.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

W101 was sunk by American aircraft 12.1.1945 at Cape Padaran. W102 was hard damaged on a mine 3.2.1945 N off Haitan but repaired and in 1947 returned to UK.