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TOMACHIDORI patrol craft (1939-1940/1949)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
トマキドリ [Tomachidori] (ex-1264-go) PS58, 1950- PS105   Tsurumi, Yokohama or Sakurajima, Osaka   1940 12.1940 // 1949 discarded 1963-69
ッキキドリ [Okichidori] (ex-1089-go) PS49, 1950- PS106, 1953- MS68, 1961- ASMN72   Tsurumi, Yokohama or Sakurajima, Osaka   1939 9.1939 // 1949 discarded 1970


Technical data


Displacement standard, t 
Displacement normal, t

189

Length, m

37.5 pp 38.5 oa

Breadth, m

5.90

Draught, m

1.93

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>Okichidori </i>1950
Okichidori 1950


Project history

Former 200-ton type aircraft salvage vessels, converted after WWII to patrol craft.

Modernizations

1953, Okichidori: + mechanical minesweeping gear

Naval service

In 1953 Okichidori was converted to minesweeper, in 1961 she was re-rated as minesweeping boat.