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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
第7号掃海艇 [7-go]			Mitsui, Tamano	10.1937	16.6.1938	12.1938	sunk 15.4.1944
第8号掃海艇 [8-go]			Uraga, Tokyo	12.1937	28.5.1938	2.1939	captured 8.1945, scuttled 13.7.1946
第9号掃海艇 [9-go]			Maizuru K K	2.1938	10.9.1938	2.1939	sunk 2.2.1942
第10号掃海艇 [10-go]			Ishikawajima, Tokyo	12.1937	22.9.1938	2.1939	sunk 10.12.1941
第11号掃海艇 [11-go]			Uraga, Tokyo	5.1938	28.12.1938	7.1939	sunk 28.3.1945
第12号掃海艇 [12-go]			Ishikawajima, Tokyo	8.1938	18.2.1939	8.1939	sunk 6.4.1945

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	630
Displacement normal, t	750
Length, m	67.3 pp 71.3 wl 72.5 oa
Breadth, m	7.85
Draught, m	2.00
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets geared steam turbines, 2 Kampon boilers
Power, h. p.	3850
Max speed, kts	20
Fuel, t	coal + oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	2000(14)
Armament	3 x 1 - 120/45 3-shiki, 1 x 2 - 25/60 96-shiki, mechanical minesweeping gear
Complement	88

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Project history

Built under 3rd Supplementary programme of 1937. Development of W17 class with strengthened artillery.

Modernizations

1943 - 1944, all survived: - 1 x 1 - 120/45, minesweeping gear; + 2 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

W10 was sunk 10.12.1941 at Luzon by US aircraft. W9 was lost 2.2.1943 at Amboina (Ceram) on Dutch mine. W7 was sunk 15.4.1944 in Andaman Sea by British submarine Storm. W11 was damaged 2.2.1943 on a mine at Amboina, 28.3.1945 at Celebes she was sunk by US aircraft. W12 was damaged 2.2.1943 on a mine at Amboina, 6.4.1945 she was sunk at Sumbawa (Java Sea) by US submarine Besugo. W8 was scuttled by British at Singapore 13.7.1946.