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NANYO gunboat (1943)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
南洋 [Nanyo] (ex-Lyemun, ex-Looe)     Hong Kong & Whampoa, UK / Japan 7.1940 1942 3.1943 sunk 23.12.1943


Technical data


Displacement standard, t~ 700
Displacement full, t

~ 900

Length, m

54.9

Breadth, m

6.69

Draught, m

3.12 deep load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers

Power, h. p.

2400

Max speed, kts

13

Fuel, toil 150
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

2 x 1 - 120/45 10-shiki

Complement 


Standard scale images


British sister-ship minesweeper <i>Rhyl</i> 1943
British sister-ship minesweeper Rhyl 1943


Project history

Former British minesweeper of Bangor class, demolished on the stocks by British in December, 1941 and later taken over by Japanese and launched in 1942. 1200t tonnage given in Japanese documents is either wrong or original dimensions (given above) were enlarged. Nanyo was completed as gunboat and sister-ships were commissioned by the IJN as minesweepers.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Nanyo was sunk by American carrier aircraft S off Formosa Straits 23.12.1943.