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17-go

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
第17号掃海艇 [17-go]			Hitachi, Sakurajima	1/1935	3.8.1935	1.1936	damaged 2.8.1945, never repaired
第18号掃海艇 [18-go]			Mitsui, Tamano	2.1935	19.9.1935	4.1936	sunk 26.11.1944

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	578
Displacement normal, t	707
Length, m	67.3 pp 70.0 wl 72.5 oa
Breadth, m	7.85
Draught, m	2.52
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets geared steam turbines, 2 Kampon boilers
Power, h. p.	3200
Max speed, kts	19
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. Should become 5th and 6th ships of W13 class but after incident with Tomozuru design has been redesigned, therefore these two ships significantly differed from predecessors. In particular, they had turbines instead of machines.

Modernizations

early 1944, both: - 2 x 1 - 13.2/76; + 1 x 2 - 25/60 96-shiki, 3 x 1 - 25/60 96-shiki, 2 DCT (36), magnetic minesweeping gear

late 1944, W17: + 1 x 2 - 25/60 96-shiki, 3-shiki 1-go radar, 93-shiki hydrophone

Naval service

W18 was damaged S off Hainan 25.11.1944 by US Army aircraft and foundered next day. W17 was damaged 18.3.1945 by US submarine Springer, 2.8.1945 again hard damaged on a mine and was not under repair.