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HASHIMA cable ships with minelaying / netlaying capacity (1940 - 1941)


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  Hatsushima  

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
初島 [Hashima] (ex-初島 [Hatsushima])     Kawasaki, Kobe 10.1939 1940 10.1940 sunk 28.4.1945
釣島 [Tsurushima]     Kawasaki, Kobe 1.1940 24.5.1940 3.1941 captured 8.1945, transport Tsurushima Maru 11.1945
大立 [Odate]     Harima, Harima 4.1940 11.12.1940 7.1941 sunk 27.3.1945
立石 [Tateishi]     Harima, Harima 4.1940 1.3.1941 8.1941 sunk 21.3.1945


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

1564

Displacement normal, t

1700

Length, m

68.7 pp 70.0 wl 79.9 oa

Breadth, m

10.8

Draught, m

3.53

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 2 Kampon boilers

Power, h. p.

2300

Max speed, kts

14

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 1 - 76/40 11-shiki, 1 x 2 - 13.2/76, 12 mines or nets

Electronic equipmenthydrophone, ECM suite
Complement

109



Standard scale images


<i>Hatsushima</i> 1945
Hatsushima 1945


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  <i> Hatsushima</i>  
  Hatsushima  


Project history

Built under 4th Supplementary programme of 1939. Multi-purpose ships, were officially classified as cable ships, but could be used also as net- and minelayers.

Modernizations

1943 - 1944, all: - 1 x 2 - 13.2/76; + 1 x 2 - 25/60 96-shiki, 4 x 1 - 25/60 96-shiki, 4 DCT (36)

Naval service

Tateishi was sunk 21.3.1945 in Cam Ranh Bay (Vietnam) by US aircraft. Hatsushima 18.4.1945 was sunk at Honshu by US submarine Sennet. Odate was sunk 27.3.1945 at Kyushu by US submarine Trigger.