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  Yaeyama

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
八重山 [Yaeyama]			Kure K K	8/1930	15.10.1931	8.1932	sunk 24.9.1944

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1135
Displacement full, t	1384
Length, m	85.5 pp 89.0 wl 93.5 oa
Breadth, m	10.7
Draught, m	2.84
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 Kampon boilers
Power, h. p.	4800
Max speed, kts	20
Fuel, t	coal 278 + oil 164
Endurance, nm(kts)	4800(10)
Armament	2 x 1 - 120/45 3-shiki, 2 x 1 - 13.2/76, 185 mines or nets
Electronic equipment	OV-gata hydrophone
Complement	150

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Project history

Built under the 1927 programme. Development of Shirataka. First Japanese all-welded warship. Besides mines, could carry antisubmarine nets.

Modernizations

1943 - 1944: - mine capacity; + 4 DCT (36), 93-shiki hydrophone

Naval service

1.2.1942 Yaeyama was damaged in Subik Bay (Philippines) by US MTB РТ32, sunk 24.9.1944 at US by American carrier aircraft.