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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
第5号掃海艇 [5-go]			Mitsui, Tamano	3/1928	30.10.1928	2.1929	sunk 4.11.1944
第6号掃海艇 [6-go]			Hitachi, Sakurajima	3.1928	29.10.1928	2.1929	sunk 26.12.1941

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	620
Displacement normal, t	717
Length, m	72.0 pp 75.0 wl 77.0 oa
Breadth, m	8.25
Draught, m	2.25
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 3 Kampon boilers
Power, h. p.	4000
Max speed, kts	21
Fuel, t	coal 176
Endurance, nm(kts)	2000(14)
Armament	2 x 1 - 120/45 3-shiki, 1 x 1 - 76/40 11-shiki, 1 x 1 - 13.2/76, mechanical minesweeping gear or 50 mines
Complement	87

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Project history

Built under the 1927 programme. Development of W1 class.

Modernizations

1934 - 1935, both: permanent ballast was added, full displacement was 826t; - 1 x 1 - 76/40.

1944, 5-go: - 1 x 1 - 120/45, 1 x 1 - 13.2/76, minesweeping gear; + 1 x 2 - 25/60 96-shiki, 3 x 1 - 25/60 96-shiki, 2 DCT (36), 93-shiki hydrophone

Naval service

W6 26.12.1941 was sunk at Borneo by Dutch aircraft. W5 4.11.1944 was sunk E off Sumatra by British submarine Terrapin.