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103-GO auxiliary submarine chasers (1942 - 1945)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
第103号駆潜特務艇 [103-go] (ex-B1)     Marine Establissement, Soerabaja, Netherlands   1942 8.1942 captured 8.1945, to Australia 9.1945
第105号駆潜特務艇 [105-go] (ex-B2-16)     see note *   11.1.1943 1.1944 sunk 16.6.1945
第106号駆潜特務艇 [106-go] (ex-B2-16)     see note *   24.3.1943 9.1944 captured 8.1945, to Netherlands 9.1945
第107号駆潜特務艇 [107-go] (ex-B2-16)     see note *   27.2.1943 1.1945 captured 8.1945, to Netherlands 9.1945
第108号駆潜特務艇 [108-go] (ex-B2-16)     see note *   22.4.1943 --- captured incomplete 8.1945
第114号駆潜特務艇 [114-go] (ex-B2-16)     see note *   30.11.1943 6/1944 damaged 15.4.1945, repair incomplete
第115号駆潜特務艇 [115-go] (ex-B2-16)     see note *   30.11./1943 9/1944 captured 8.1945, to Netherlands 9.1945


Technical data


Displacement standard, t130
Displacement full, t 
Length, m

42.4 wl 45.5 oa

Breadth, m

5.00

Draught, m

1.40

No of shafts

103-go, 114-go, 115-go: 2

105-go, 107-go, 108-go: 4

106-go: 3

Machinery

103-go, 114-go, 115-go: 2 petrol engines

105-go: 4 Carmouth petrol engines

106-go: 3 Lorraine petrol engines

107-go, 108-go: 4 Lorraine petrol engines

Power, h. p.

103-go, 114-go, 115-go: 1500

105-go, 107-go, 108-go: 1800

106-go: 1200

Max speed, kts

103-go, 105-go, 114-go, 115-go: 19

106-go: 16.5

107-go, 108-go: 20

Fuel, tpetrol
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 1 - 47/40 Yamanouchi, 1 x 1 - 13.2/76, 1 x 1 - 7.7/80, 2 DCT (32)

Complement18


Standard scale images


<i>103-go</i> 1943
103-go 1943


Project history

In 1942 at capture of Dutch East India of a number of small Dutch ships abandoned at retreat has got into Japanese hands. Part from them has been scuttled on shallow water, others were in incomplete condition in yards in Surabaya and Batavia. After repair and completion 18 boats became a part of IJN as auxiliary submarine chasers. There were ex-Dutch patrol boats, captured under construction. All were commissioned by IJN as auxiliary submarine chasers.

Modernizations

None.