Muroto-class collier

Muroto in 1932
Class overview
Name: Muroto-class collier
Builders: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Operators:  Imperial Japanese Navy
Built: 1918 1919
In commission: 1918 1944
Planned: 2
Completed: 2
Lost: 2
General characteristics
Type: Collier
Displacement:
Length: 105.16 m (345 ft 0 in) Lpp
Beam: 15.24 m (50 ft 0 in)
Draught: 7.06 m (23 ft 2 in)
Propulsion:
  • 1 × three expansion stages reciprocating engine
  • 2 × scotch boilers
  • single shaft, 2,500 shp
  • 1930
  • 3 × Miyahara model water tube boilers
Speed:
  • 12.5 knots (14.4 mph; 23.2 km/h)
  • 1930
  • 14.0 knots (16.1 mph; 25.9 km/h)
Capacity: 6,000 tons coal
Complement: 124
Armament:
  • 1918
  • 2 × 120 mm (4.7 in) L/45 naval guns
  • 1932
  • 2 × 76.2 mm (3.00 in) L/40 AA guns

The Muroto-class colliers (室戸型給炭艦, Muroto-gata Kyūtankan) were a class of collier of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), serving from roughly the end of World War I into World War II. Two vessels were built in 1918-19 under the Eight-four fleet plan.

Background

Service

Ships in class

Ship Builder Laid down Launched Completed Fate
Muroto (室戸) Mitsubishi, Kōbe Shipyard 4 July 1918 23 October 1918 7 December 1918 Sunk by USS Sea Dog north of Amami Ōshima 29°10′N 129°44′E / 29.167°N 129.733°E / 29.167; 129.733 on 22 October 1944.
Noshima (野島)[1] Mitsubishi, Kōbe Shipyard 16 July 1918 3 February 1919 31 March 1919 Sunk during the Battle of the Bismarck Sea on 3 March 1943.

Footnotes

  1. 15 December 1917, Administrative order No. 147, Named one transport vessel., Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of the Navy of Japan.

Bibliography

Noshima in 1935


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