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HAYASUI seaplane tender - tanker (1944)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
速吸 [Hayasui]     Harima, Aioi 1.2.1943 25.12.1943 24.4.1944 sunk 19.8.1944


Technical data


Displacement standard, t18300
Displacement normal, t20000
Length, m

153.0 pp 157.3 wl

Breadth, m

20.1

Draught, m

8.84

No of shafts1
Machinery1 set geared steam turbines, 2 Kampon boilers
Power, h. p.

9500

Max speed, kts

16.5

Fuel, toil
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

2 x 2 - 127/40 89-shiki, 6 x 2 - 25/60 96-shiki, 1 catapult, 6 seaplanes (E7K, E8N, F1M, E13A, A6M-N, E15K, N1K, E16A)

Complement 


Standard scale images


<i>Hayasui</i> 1944
Hayasui 1944


Project history

Built under 1941 War Programme, served as fast fleet tanker and seaplane carrier. Second ship, No307, was cancelled. Building of 7 modified ships of Tamano class (Tamano, Shiomi, Takahama, Oshu, Uma, Ryumai, Shiose; 15600/17500t, 17kts, 2x2-127/40, 14 seaplanes) never started.

Modernizations

None.