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OHAMA escort (1944 / 1945)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
大浜 [Ohama]     Mitsubishi, Yokohama   1944 1.1945 sunk 10.8.1945
大指 [Osashi]     Mitsubishi, Yokohama   10.2.1945 --- cancelled 6.1945


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

2670

Displacement full, t

3070

Length, m112.0 pp 116.2 oa
Breadth, m11.6
Draught, m4.20
No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 sets Kampon geared steam turbines, 3 Kampon boilers

Power, h. p.

52000

Max speed, kts

32.5

Fuel, t

oil

Endurance, nm(kts)4000(18)
Armour, mmdeck, superstructures: 22 - 16
Armament

2 x 1 - 120/45 10-shiki, 4 x 3 - 25/60 96-shiki, 20 x 1 - 25/60 96-shiki, 2 DCT (36)

Electronic equipment3-shiki 1-go radar, 93-shiki sonar
Complement173


Standard scale images


<i>Ohama</i> 1945
Ohama 1945


Project history

Aircraft bombing target ships, built under 1942 additional War programme. 5 ships were planned (Nos5411-5415) but building of Nos5412-5415 (Yagoshi, Anori, Obatake) was cancelled in 1944 and laid down ships were converted while building to escorts in cause of shortage of escorts and ASW ships. Works on Osashi were suspended in June, 1945, when ship was 95% complete, she was foundered 6.3.1946 as result of leaks in Yokohama harbour.

Ship protection

deck and superstructures had horizontal 16 - 22 mm armour.