No.1-class patrol boat

Class overview
Name: No.1-class patrol boat
Builders: Yokosuka Naval Arsenal
Operators: Imperial Japanese Navy
Succeeded by:
Built: 1940
In commission: 1940 1945
Planned: 4
Completed: 2
Cancelled: 2 (replaced by 4 × No.31-class patrol boats)
Lost: 2
General characteristics
Type: Patrol boat
Displacement: 1,270 long tons (1,290 t) standard
Length:
  • April 1940
  • 102.57 m (336 ft 6 in) overall
Beam: 8.92 m (29 ft 3 in)
Propulsion:
Speed: 22.0 knots (25.3 mph; 40.7 km/h)
Armament:
  • April 1940
  • 3 × 120 mm (4.7 in) L/45 naval guns
  • 2 × 533 mm (21.0 in) torpedo tubes
  • 2 × 533 mm torpedoes
  • Late 1941
  • 2 × 120 mm (4.7 in) L/45 naval guns
  • 4 × Type 96 25 mm AA guns
  • 2 × depth charge throwers
  • 18 × depth charges
  • 2 × landing craft and 250 troops,
  • or 42 × depth charges

The No. 1-class patrol boat (第一号型哨戒艇, Dai Ichi Gō-gata Shōkaitei) was a class of patrol boats of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), serving during World War II. 2 vessels were converted from Minekaze-class destroyers in 1940.

Background

Rebuilt

Service

Ships in class

Ship Completed as destroyer Rebuilt completed Fate
Patrol Boat No. 1 [2]
ex-Shimakaze
15 November 1920 First quarter of 1940 at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal.
Renamed Patrol Boat No. 1 on 1 April 1940.[3]
Sunk by USS Guardfish at west off Kavieng 02°51′S 149°43′E / 2.850°S 149.717°E / -2.850; 149.717 on 12 January 1943. Decommissioned on 10 February 1943.
Patrol Boat No. 2
ex-Nadakaze
30 September 1921 First quarter of 1940 at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal.
Renamed Patrol Boat No. 2 on 1 April 1940.[3]
Sunk by HMS Stubborn at Lombok Strait 07°07′S 115°40′E / 7.117°S 115.667°E / -7.117; 115.667 on 25 July 1945. Decommissioned on 30 September 1945.

See also

Footnotes

  1. About the time of their entering a dock, correct historical materials were not left.
  2. 第一号哨戒艇 (Dai 1 Gō Shōkaitei). The same shall apply hereinafter.
  3. 1 2 1 April 1940, Notice No. 72, Reclassified old destroyers to auxiliary boat. (昭和十五年四月一日 海軍大臣官房達第七十二号 舊驅逐艦ヲ特務艇籍ニ編入シ左ノ通命名ス 海軍大臣 吉田善吾), Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of the Navy.

Bibliography

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