No.1-class auxiliary patrol boat

Auxiliary Patrol Boat No.173 on 10 January 1945
Class overview
Name: No.1 class auxiliary patrol boat
Builders:
  • Hull
  • Ichikawa Shipyard
  • Gōriki Shipyard
  • Koyanagi Shipyard
  • Saga Iron Works
  • Shikoku Dock Company
  • Jinen Iron Works
  • Tokushima Limited Sipyard
  • Nishii Shipyard
  • Hayashikane Heavy Industries
  • Fukuoka Iron Works
  • Fukushima Iron Works
  • Funaya Iron Works
  • Miho Shipyard
  • Murakami Shipyard
  • Yamanishi Iron Works
  • Yonago Shipyard
  • Fitted with armaments
  • Kure Naval Arsenal
  • Maizuru Naval Arsenal
  • Sasebo Naval Arsenal
  • Yokosuka Naval Arsenal
Operators:
Built: 19441945
In commission: 1945 (IJN)
Planned: 280
Completed: 27 (IJN)
Cancelled: 223
Lost: 5 (wartime)
Retired: 22 (IJN)
General characteristics
Type: Patrol boat (Picket boat)
Displacement: 238 long tons (242 t) standard
Length: 28.50 m (93 ft 6 in) overall
Beam: 6.14 m (20 ft 2 in)
Draught: 2.35 m (7 ft 9 in)
Propulsion:
  • 1 × intermediate diesel
  • shingle shaft, 400 bhp
Speed: 9.0 knots (10.4 mph; 16.7 km/h)
Range: 4,000 nmi (7,400 km) at 8.0 kn (9.2 mph; 14.8 km/h)
Complement: 34
Armament:

The No.1 class auxiliary patrol boat (第一号型哨戒特務艇, Dai Ichi Gō-gata Shōkai-Tokumutei) was a class of patrol boat (picket boat) of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), serving during World War II. 280 vessels were planned under the Maru Sen Programme (Ship # 2121–2400), however, only 27 vessels were completed before the end of the war.

Background

Ships in class

See also

Bibliography

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Footnotes

  1. example: Doolittle Raid in 1942.
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