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NATSUSHIMA coastal minelayers - netlayers - minesweepers (1933 - 1934)


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Nasami

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
那沙美 [Nasami]     Harima, Aioi 1.1933 26.3.1934 9.1934 sunk 1.4.1944
夏島 [Natsushima]     Ishikawajima, Tokyo 12.1931 24.3.1933 7.1933 sunk 22.2.1944


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

450

Displacement full, t510
Length, m67.0 pp 70.0 wl
Breadth, m7.50
Draught, m1.90
No of shafts2
Machinery2 diesels
Power, h. p.2300
Max speed, kts

19

Fuel, tdiesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)2100(10)
Armament

2 x 1 - 76/40 11-shiki, 1 x 1 - 13.2/76, 120 mines or net or mechanical minesweeping gear

Complement74


Standard scale images


<i>Nasami</i> 1941
Nasami 1941


Graphics


<i> Nasami</i>
Nasami


Project history

Built under 1st Supplementary programme of 1931. Development of Tsubame class, changes have concerned mostly machinery: instead of triple expansion steam engines on predecessors, Nasami class ships had diesels. Carried antisubmarine nets or minesweeping equipment.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Natsushima 22.2.1944 was sunk at New Ireland by US destroyers Charles Ausbume, Dyson and Stanly. Nasami 30.3.1944 was damaged in Rabaul by US carrier aircraft and in two days foundered from received damages.