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4-GO submarine chasers (1938 - 1939)


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  9-go  

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
第4号駆潜艇 [4-go]     Fujinagata, Osaka 1.1938 13.9.1938 12.1938 captured 8.1945, BU 1946
第5号駆潜艇 [5-go]     Mitsubishi, Yokohama 1.1938 28.7.1938 12.1938 captured 8.1945, scuttled 11.7.1946
第6号駆潜艇 [6-go]     Tsurumi, Yokohama 7.1938 6.2.1939 5.1939 sunk 30.3.1944
第7号駆潜艇 [7-go]     Tsurumi, Yokohama 10.1937 10.6.1938 11.1938 sunk 11.4.1945
第8号駆潜艇 [8-go]     Tama, Tamano 1.1938 9.8.1938 11.1938 sunk 4.3.1945
第9号駆潜艇 [9-go]     Mitsubishi, Yokohama 5.1938 15.10.1938 5.1939 captured 8.1945, to China 10.1947 (海宏 [Fuling])
第10号駆潜艇 [10-go]     Fujinagata, Osaka 9.1938 31.1.1939 6.1939 wrecked 2.5.1944
第11号駆潜艇 [11-go]     Tsurumi, Yokohama 1.1938 28.6.1938 2.1939 sunk 6.11.1943
第12号駆潜艇 [12-go]     Tama, Tamano 7.1938 8.2.1939 4.1939 lost 8.1944


Technical data


Displacement standard, t291
Displacement full, t

309

Length, m

54.0 pp 55.5 wl 56.2 oa

Breadth, m

5.60

Draught, m

2.15

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 diesels

Power, h. p.

2600

Max speed, kts

20

Fuel, tdiesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 2 - 40/62 HI 91-shiki, 2 DCT (36)

Electronic equipment93-shiki sonar, 93-shiki hydrophone
Complement

59



Standard scale images


<i>4-go</i> 1942
4-go 1942


Graphics


  <i> 9-go</i>  
  9-go  


Project history

On the basis of construction of Ch3 under 3rd Supplementary programme of 1937 9 chasers of Ch4 class have been built. Their main difference from predecessor became smaller superstructure moved astern for lightening of a fore end.

Modernizations

1944 - 1945, all survived: + 1 x 3 - 25/60 96-shiki

1944-1945, some survived: + 3-shiki 1-go radar