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ITSUKUSHIMA minelayer (1929)


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Itsukushima

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Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
厳島 [Itsukushima]     Uraga, Tokyo 2.1928 22.5.1929 12.1929 sunk 7.10.1944


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

1970

Displacement full, t2408
Length, m100.0 pp 104.0 wl 107.5 oa
Breadth, m11.8
Draught, m3.22
No of shafts3
Machinery3 MAN diesels
Power, h. p.3000
Max speed, kts

17

Fuel, tdiesel oil 295
Endurance, nm(kts)5000(10)
Armament

3 x 1 - 140/50 3-shiki, 2 x 1 - 76/40 11-shiki, 300 mines or nets, 2 DCT (2)

Electronic equipmentOV-gata hydrophone
Complement235


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<i>Itsukushima</i> 1941
Itsukushima 1941


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<i> Itsukushima</i>
Itsukushima


Project history

Built under the 1923 programme. On ship design big effect has rendered by British cruiser-minelayer Adventure. Itsukushima became first large Japanese ship with diesel machinery. She was fitted with closed mine deck with four mine rails for 250-300 big or 500 small mines and can also lay antisubmarine nets.

Modernizations

1938: - 2 x 1 - 76/40; + 2 x 1 - 47/30 Yamaguchi, 2 x 2 - 13.2/76

1941: - 2 x 1 - 47/30, 2 x 2 - 13.2/76; + 2 x 2 - 25/60 96-shiki

1944: + 6 x 1 - 13.2/76, mine capacity was increased to 400 mines; standard displacement was 2330 t.

Naval service

Itsukushima was sunk 7.10.1944 in Java Sea by Dutch submarine Zvaardvis.