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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
第4号駆潜艇 [4-go]			Fujinagata, Osaka	1.1938	13.9.1938	12.1938	captured 8.1945, BU 1946
第5号駆潜艇 [5-go]			Mitsubishi, Yokohama	1.1938	28.7.1938	12.1938	captured 8.1945, scuttled 11.7.1946
第6号駆潜艇 [6-go]			Tsurumi, Yokohama	7.1938	6.2.1939	5.1939	sunk 30.3.1944
第7号駆潜艇 [7-go]			Tsurumi, Yokohama	10.1937	10.6.1938	11.1938	sunk 11.4.1945
第8号駆潜艇 [8-go]			Tama, Tamano	1.1938	9.8.1938	11.1938	sunk 4.3.1945
第9号駆潜艇 [9-go]			Mitsubishi, Yokohama	5.1938	15.10.1938	5.1939	captured 8.1945, to China 10.1947 (海宏 [Fuling])
第10号駆潜艇 [10-go]			Fujinagata, Osaka	9.1938	31.1.1939	6.1939	wrecked 2.5.1944
第11号駆潜艇 [11-go]			Tsurumi, Yokohama	1.1938	28.6.1938	2.1939	sunk 6.11.1943
第12号駆潜艇 [12-go]			Tama, Tamano	7.1938	8.2.1939	4.1939	lost 8.1944

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	291
Displacement full, t	309
Length, m	54.0 pp 55.5 wl 56.2 oa
Breadth, m	5.60
Draught, m	2.15
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 diesels
Power, h. p.	2600
Max speed, kts	20
Fuel, t	diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	1 x 2 - 40/62 HI 91-shiki, 2 DCT (36)
Electronic equipment	93-shiki sonar, 93-shiki hydrophone
Complement	59

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Project history

On the basis of construction of Ch3 under 3rd Supplementary programme of 1937 9 chasers of Ch4 class have been built. Their main difference from predecessor became smaller superstructure moved astern for lightening of a fore end.

Modernizations

1944 - 1945, all survived: + 1 x 3 - 25/60 96-shiki

1944-1945, some survived: + 3-shiki 1-go radar