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KAWACHIDORI patrol craft (1940-1946/1949)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
コーアキドリ [Kawachidori] (ex-1...-go) PS16, 1950- PS101       1945 8.1946 // 1949 discarded 1963-69
ハマキドリ [Hamachidori] (ex-1338-go) PS45, 1950- PS102   Ishikawajima, Tokyo   1941 2.1941 // 1949 discarded 1963-69
アザキドリ [Asachidori] (ex-1332-go) PS46, 1950- PS103   Ishikawajima, Tokyo   1940 1940 // 1949 discarded 1963-69
ミオキドリ [Miochidori] (ex-1...-go) PS104       1940-45 1940-45 // 1950 discarded 1963-69
ソーアキドリ [Sawachidori] (ex-1...go) PS107       1940-45 1940-45 // 1950 discarded 1963-69
ワカキドリ [Wakachidori] (ex-1540-go) PS44, 1950- PS108       1943 2.1944 // 1949 discarded 1963-69
ムレーチドリ? [Murachidori?] (ex-1538-go) PS56, 1950- PS109       1942 1942 // 1949 discarded 1963-69
ハルキドリ [Haruchidori] (ex-1541-go) PS60, 1950- PS115       1943 1943 // 1949 discarded 1963-69
(ex-1336-go)     Kawasaki, Kobe   1940 1940 // 1949 to South Korea 1950 (충무공함 I [Chung Mukong I])
(ex-1341-go) PS48       1941 1941 // 1949 to South Korea 1950 (충무공함 II [Chung Mukong II])


Technical data


Displacement standard, t 
Displacement normal, t

296

Length, m

43.0 pp 45.1 wl

Breadth, m

6.81

Draught, m

2.27

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 diesels

Power, h. p.

800

Max speed, kts

14

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 1 - 25/60 25-shiki

Electronic equipmentpresumably SO radar
Complement 


Standard scale images


<i>Kawachidori </i>1950
Kawachidori 1950


Project history

Former 300-ton type aircraft salvage vessels, converted after WWII to patrol craft.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.