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Itsukushima

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Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
厳島 [Itsukushima]			Uraga, Tokyo	2.1928	22.5.1929	12.1929	sunk 7.10.1944

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1970
Displacement full, t	2408
Length, m	100.0 pp 104.0 wl 107.5 oa
Breadth, m	11.8
Draught, m	3.22
No of shafts	3
Machinery	3 MAN diesels
Power, h. p.	3000
Max speed, kts	17
Fuel, t	diesel oil 295
Endurance, nm(kts)	5000(10)
Armament	3 x 1 - 140/50 3-shiki, 2 x 1 - 76/40 11-shiki, 300 mines or nets, 2 DCT (2)
Electronic equipment	OV-gata hydrophone
Complement	235

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Project history

Built under the 1923 programme. On ship design big effect has rendered by British cruiser-minelayer Adventure. Itsukushima became first large Japanese ship with diesel machinery. She was fitted with closed mine deck with four mine rails for 250-300 big or 500 small mines and can also lay antisubmarine nets.

Modernizations

1938: - 2 x 1 - 76/40; + 2 x 1 - 47/30 Yamaguchi, 2 x 2 - 13.2/76

1941: - 2 x 1 - 47/30, 2 x 2 - 13.2/76; + 2 x 2 - 25/60 96-shiki

1944: + 6 x 1 - 13.2/76, mine capacity was increased to 400 mines; standard displacement was 2330 t.

Naval service

Itsukushima was sunk 7.10.1944 in Java Sea by Dutch submarine Zvaardvis.