Hatsutaka-class minelayer

Hatsutaka in 1939
Class overview
Name:
  • Hatsutaka-class minelayers
  • Hatsutaka-class
  • Wakataka-class
  • Asadori-class (only a project)
Builders: Harima Zōsen Corporation
Operators:
Preceded by: Shirataka
Cost:
  • 4,733,000 JPY (Hatsutaka)
  • 4,900,000 JPY (Wakataka)
Built: 1938 1941
In commission: 1939 1946 (IJN)
Planned: 4
Completed: 3
Cancelled: 1
Lost: 2
Retired: 1
General characteristics
Type: Minelayer/Netlayer
Displacement: 1,600 long tons (1,626 t) standard
Length:
  • 91.00 m (298 ft 7 in) overall
  • 86.50 m (283 ft 10 in) waterline
Beam: 11.30 m (37 ft 1 in)
Draught: 4.0 m (13 ft 1 in)
Propulsion:
  • 2 × Kampon geared turbines
  • 3 × Kampon coal/oil-fired boilers
  • 2 shafts, 6,000 shp
Speed: 20.0 knots (23.0 mph; 37.0 km/h)
Range: 3,000 nmi (5,600 km) at 14 kn (16 mph; 26 km/h)
Complement:
  • Hatsutaka and Aotaka
  • 199
  • Wakataka
  • 202
Armament:
  • Hatsutaka, 1939
  • 4 × 40 mm heavy machine guns
  • 18 × Type 95 depth charges
  • 1 × Type 94 depth charge projector
  • 4 × depth charge throwers
  • 1 × Type 93 active sonar
  • 1 × Type 93 hydrophone
  • 24 × Type 96 510 m (1,673 ft 3 in) anti-submarine nets or 100 × Type 93 naval mines
  • Wakataka, 1941
  • 2 × 76.2 mm (3.00 in) L/40 AA guns
  • 4 × Type 93 13 mm AA guns
  • 18 × Type 95 depth charges
  • 1 × Type 94 depth charge projector
  • 4 × depth charge throwers
  • 1 × Type 93 active sonar
  • 1 × Type 93 hydrophone
  • 24 × Type 96 510 m (1,673 ft 3 in) anti-submarine nets or 100 × Type 93 naval mines

The Hatsutaka-class minelayer (初鷹型敷設艦, Hatsutaka-gata Fusetsukan) was a class of minelayers of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), serving during World War II. They have three sub classes, this article handles them collectively.

Design

Ships in classes

Hatsutaka-class

Ship # Ship Laid down Launched Completed Fate
7 Hatsutaka (初鷹) [1] 29 March 1938 28 April 1939 31 October 1939 Sunk by USS Hawkbill at South China Sea 04°54′N 103°28′E / 4.900°N 103.467°E / 4.900; 103.467 on 16 May 1945.
8 Aotaka (蒼鷹) [2] 10 May 1939 3 February 1940 30 June 1940 Sunk by USS Pargo at north of Jesselton 07°00′N 116°00′E / 7.000°N 116.000°E / 7.000; 116.000 on 26 September 1944.

Wakataka-class

Ship # Ship Laid down Launched Completed Fate
102 Wakataka (若鷹) [3] 15 November 1940 12 July 1941 30 November 1941 Decommissioned on 1 March 1946. Surrendered to United Kingdom on 17 October 1947. Transferred to Federation of Malaya, and renamed Laburnum. Surrendered to Republic of Singapore in 1968. Later, nothing more was heard.

Asadori-class

Ship # Ship Laid down Launched Completed Fate
5039 Asadori (朝鳥) [4] Cancelled on 5 May 1944.

Photos

Footnotes

  1. Free translation: Hawk in early fall.
  2. Blue hawk.
  3. Free translation: The 1 year old hawk.
  4. Free translation: Bird(s) Flying away from a nest in morning.

See also

Bibliography

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