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112-GO auxiliary submarine chasers (1930 / 1942 - 1943)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
第112号駆潜特務艇 [112-go] (ex-B)     Willemsoord, Den Helder, Netherlands 9.1928 24.9.1929 8.1930 // 12.1942 sunk 4.6.1945
第113号駆潜特務艇 [113-go] (ex-A)     Willemsoord, Den Helder, Netherlands 9.1928 19.4.1929 8.1930 // 1.1943 sunk 23.6.1945
第116号駆潜特務艇 [116-go] (ex-C)     Willemsoord, Den Helder, Netherlands 4.1929 1929 8.1930 // 4.1943 sunk 13.11.1944


Technical data


Displacement standard, t179
Displacement full, t225
Length, m

42.8 wl 45.0 oa

Breadth, m

6.00

Draught, m

1.50

No of shafts

2

Machinery

VTE, 1 water-tube boiler

Power, h. p.

700

Max speed, kts

14.5

Fuel, toil 40
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 1 - 47/40 Yamanouchi, 1 x 3 - 25/60 96-shiki, 1 x 1 - 13.2/76, 1 DCT (8)

Complement30


Standard scale images


<i>112-go</i> 1943
112-go 1943


Project history

In 1942 at capture of Dutch East India of a number of small Dutch ships thrown at retreat has got into Japanese hands. Part from them has been scuttled on shallow water, others were in incomplete condition in yards in Surabaya and Batavia. After repair and completion 18 boats became a part of IJN as auxiliary submarine chasers.

Ex-Dutch minesweepers of "A" class, scuttled by own crews 1 -6.3.1942. All were raised and commissioned by IJN as auxiliary submarine chasers.

Modernizations

None