No.1-class auxiliary submarine chaser

No.1 class on 10 January 1945
Class overview
Name: No.1-class auxiliary submarine chaser
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: 1942 (?)1945
In commission: 19431971
Planned: 200
Completed: 200
Lost: 81
Retired: 119
General characteristics
Type: Submarine chaser
Displacement: 130 long tons (132 t) standard
Length: 29.20 m (95 ft 10 in) overall
Beam: 5.65 m (18 ft 6 in)
Draught: 1.97 m (6 ft 6 in)
Propulsion:
  • 1 × intermediate diesel
  • shingle shaft, 400 bhp
Speed: 11.0 knots (12.7 mph; 20.4 km/h)
Range: 1,000 nmi (1,900 km) at 10.0 kn (11.5 mph; 18.5 km/h)
Complement: 32
Armament:
  • 1 × 7.7 mm machine gun
  • 22 × depth charges
  • 1 × dunking hydrophone
  • 1 × simple sonar
  • From mid 1943, the 7.7 mm machine gun was replaced with a 13.2mm machine gun[1]
  • From mid 1944, the 13.2mm machine gun was replaced with a 25mm cannon[1]

The No.1 class auxiliary submarine chaser (第一号型駆潜特務艇, Dai Ichi Gō-gata Kusen-Tokumutei) was a class of submarine chasers of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), serving during World War II. 200 vessels were built under the Maru Kyū Programme (Ship # 500–599) and the Maru Sen Programme (Ship # 2001–2100).

Background

Ships in class

Maru Kyū Programme vessels. (Ship # 500–599)

Maru Sen Programme vessels. (Ship # 2001–2100)

No.169, No.173, No.99 and No.234 in 1946

References

  1. 1 2 http://www.navypedia.org/ships/japan/jap_sc_aux.htm
  2. Jentschura et al 1977, p. 267.
  3. Jentschura et al 1977, p. 217.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Gardiner and Chumbley 1995, p. 221.

Bibliography

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