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5-GO minesweepers (1929)


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  6-go  

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



Standard scale images


<i>5-go</i> 1941
5-go 1941


Graphics


  <i> 6-go</i>  
  6-go  


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.