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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
第13号掃海艇 [13-go]			Fujinagata, Osaka	12.1931	30.3.1933	8.1933	sunk 12.1.1942
第14号掃海艇 [14-go]			Hitachi, Sakurajima	12.1931	20.5.1933	9.1933	sunk 12.1.1942
第15号掃海艇 [15-go]			Fujinagata, Osaka	4.1933	14.2.1934	8.1934	sunk 5.3.1945
第16号掃海艇 [16-go]			Mitsui, Tamano	6.1933	30.3.1934	9.1934	sunk 11.9.1943

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	500
Displacement normal, t	560
Length, m	69.0 pp 72.0 wl 74.0 oa
Breadth, m	8.20
Draught, m	2.07
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 Kampon boilers
Power, h. p.	3200
Max speed, kts	20
Fuel, t	coal + oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	2600(12)
Armament	2 x 1 - 120/45 3-shiki, 2 x 1 - 13.2/76, mechanical minesweeping gear
Complement	98

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Project history

Built under 1st Supplementary programme of 1931. Modified design of the W5 class. Dimensions and engine power were a little decreased, number of boilers was shrank from three to two. In 1935 after incident with Tomozuru ships have passed modernization for improvement of stability and hull longitudinal strength raise. Sizes of superstructure were decreased, as well as funnel height. Solid ballast was laid, displacement has raised from 500/551 to 691/787t, and maximal speed has decreased from 20 to 18kts.

Modernizations

1935, all: solid ballast was added, superstructures were reconstructed, displacement was 691/800 (normal)t, maximal speed decreased to 18kts.

1944, 15-go: - 1 x 1 - 120/45, 2 x 1 - 13.2/76, minesweeping gear; + 1 x 2 - 25/60 96-shiki, 3 x 1 - 25/60 96-shiki, 2 DCT (36), 3-shiki 1-go radar, 93-shiki hydrophone

Naval service

W13 and W14 were sunk 12.1.1942 at Tarakan by gunfire of Dutch coastal battery. W16 was lost 11.9.1943 on a mine at Celebes. W15 was hard damaged 5.3.1945 at Kyushu by a torpedo from US submarine Tilefish and ran aground.