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"A" escorts (SHIMUSHU) (1940 - 1941)


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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

Complement150


Standard scale images


<i>Shimushu</i> 1940
Shimushu 1940
<i>Shimushu</i> 1944
Shimushu 1944


Graphics


  <i> Shimushu</i>
  Shimushu


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