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SARUSHIMA coastal minelayer - netlayer - minesweeper (1934)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
猿島 [Sarushima]     Mitsubishi, Yokohama 3.1933 16.12.1933 7.1934 sunk 4.7.1944


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

566

Displacement full, t585
Length, m67.0 pp 70.0 wl
Breadth, m7.49
Draught, m1.85
No of shafts2
Machinery2 diesels
Power, h. p.2100
Max speed, kts

18

Fuel, tdiesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)4640(14)
Armament

2 x 1 - 76/40 11-shiki, 1 x 1 - 13.2/76, 120 mines or net or mechanical minesweeping gear

Complement 


Standard scale images


<i>nearly sister-ship Nasami</i> 1941
nearly sister-ship Nasami 1941


Project history

Built under 1st Supplementary program of 1931. Slightly increased version of Nasami with higher endurance. Carried antisubmarine nets and minesweeping equipment.

Modernizations

1943 - 1944: - mine capacity; + 4 DCT (36), 93-shiki hydrophone or 0-shiki sonar

Naval service

Sarushima was sunk 4.7.1944 at coast of Japan by US carrier aircraft.