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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
第1号掃海艇 [1-go]			Harima, Harima	1922	6.3.1923	6.1923	sunk 10.8.1945
第2号掃海艇 [2-go]			Mitsui, Tamano	1922	17.3.1923	6.1923	sunk 1.3.1942
第3号掃海艇 [3-go]			Hitachi, Sakurajima	1922	29.3.1923	6.1923	sunk 9.4.1945
第4号掃海艇 [4-go]			Sasebo K K	12.1923	24.4.1924	4.1925	captured 8.1945, scuttled 13.7.1946

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	615
Displacement normal, t	702
Length, m	71.6 pp 74.3 wl 76.3 oa
Breadth, m	8.03
Draught, m	2.29
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 3 Kampon boilers
Power, h. p.	4000
Max speed, kts	20
Fuel, t	coal 186
Endurance, nm(kts)	3000(10)
Armament	2 x 1 - 120/45 3-shiki, 1 x 1 - 76/40 11-shiki, mechanical minesweeping gear
Complement	92

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Project history

Built under the 1922 programme. First Japanese purpose-built minesweepers.

Modernizations

1938, all: permanent ballast was added, full displacement was 807t; - 1 x 1 - 76/40.

1944, all survived: - 1 x 1 - 120/45, mechanical minesweeping gear; + 1 x 2 - 25/60 96-shiki, 3 x 1 - 25/60 96-shiki, 2 DCT (36), 2-shiki 2-go or 3-shiki 1-go radar, 93-shiki hydrophone

Naval service

W2 was lost 1.3.1942 on a mine in Bantam Bay, Java. W1 was sunk 10.8.1945 at coast of Japan (Yamada Bay) by US carrier aircraft. W3 9.4.1945 was sunk at coast of Japan (NE off Sendai) by US submarine Parche.