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  Shimushu

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
占守 [Shimushu]			Mitsui, Tamano	11/1938	13.12.1939	6.1940	surrendered 8.1945, to Soviet Union 7.1947 (ЭК-31 [EK-31])
八丈 [Hachijo]			Sasebo K K	8.1939	10.4.1940	3.1941	damaged 11.5.1945, never repaired
国後 [Kunashiri]			Tsurumi, Yokohama	3.1939	6.5.1940	10.1940	surrendered 8.1945, wrecked 4.6.1946
石垣 [Ishigaki]			Mitsui, Tamano	8.1939	14.9.1940	2.1941	sunk 31.5.1944

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	860
Displacement full, t	1020
Length, m	72.5 pp 76.2 wl 77.7 oa
Breadth, m	9.10
Draught, m	3.05
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 diesels
Power, h. p.	4200
Max speed, kts	19.7
Fuel, t	diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	8000(16)
Armament	3 x 1 - 120/45 3-shiki, 2 x 2 - 25/60 96-shiki, 2 DCT (12), mechanical minesweeping gear
Complement	150

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Project history

Escorts (Kaibo Kan) of A type were built under 3rd Supplementary programme of 1937. Prototype of all subsequent Japanese escorts. 4 more ships of this class were provided by the programme of 1942 (Nos 790-793), but work on them did not start.

Modernizations

5.1942, all: - minesweeping gear; DC stowage was increased to 36; + 93-shiki sonar

8.1943, all: + 1 x 1 - 76 ASW DCT, DC stowage was increased to 60, + 2-shiki 2-go radar

late 1944, all survived: - 2 x 2 - 25/60; + 5 x 3 - 25/60 96-shiki, 3-shiki 1-go radar