Shimushu 1940
Shimushu 1944
| Name | No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| 占守 <Shimushu> | Mitsui, Tamano | 11/1938 | 13/12/1939 | 6/1940 | surrendered 8/1945, to Soviet Union 7/1947 (έΚ-31 <EK-31>) | |
| 八丈 <Hachijo> | Sasebo K K | 8/1939 | 10/4/1940 | 3/1941 | damaged 11/5/1945, never repaired | |
| 国後 <Kunashiri> | Tsurumi, Yokohama | 3/1939 | 6/5/1940 | 10/1940 | surrendered 8/1945, wrecked 4/6/1946 | |
| 石垣 <Ishigaki> | Mitsui, Tamano | 8/1939 | 14/9/1940 | 2/1941 | sunk 31/5/1944 |
|
Displacement standard, t |
860 |
|
Displacement full, t |
1020 |
|
Length, m |
72.5 pp 76.2 wl 77.7 oa |
|
Breadth, m |
9.10 |
|
Draught, m |
3.05 |
|
No of shafts |
2 |
|
Machinery |
diesels |
|
Power, h. p. |
4200 |
|
Max speed, kts |
19.7 |
|
Fuel, t |
diesel oil |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | 8000(16) |
|
Armament |
3 x 1 - 120/45 3-shiki, 2 x 2 - 25/60 96-shiki, 2 DCT (12), sweeps |
|
Complement |
150 |
Ship project history: Escorts (Kaibo Kan) of A type were built under 3rd Supplementary program of 1937. Prototype of all subsequent Japanese escorts. 4 more ships of this class were provided by the program of 1942 (Nos 790-793), but work on them did not start.
Modernizations: 5/1942, all: - sweeps; DC stowage was increased to 36.
8/1943, all: + 1 x 1 - 76 ASW DCT, DC stowage was increased to 60.
late 1944, all survived: - 2 x 2 - 25/60; + 5 x 3 - 25/60 96-shiki
Naval service:I shigaki 31/5/1944
was sunk off Kuriles by American submarine Herring.
Shimushu 25/11/1944 was damaged by American submarine
Haddo. Hachijo 11/5/1945 was hard damaged on a mine
and was not under repair. Kunashiri was wrecked 4/6/1946
during repatriation service off Omaezaki, Suruga Wan, abandoned 25/6/1946 and
stricken. In 1947 Shimushu was transferred to the USSR
on reparation.
Shimushu
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