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LABURNUM minelayer (1941/1948)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp. Fate
Laburnum (ex-若鷹 [Wakataka])     Harima, Aioi, Japan 11.1940 12.7.1941 11.1941 // 1948 stricken 1956


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

1608

Displacement normal, t

1890

Length, m

82.5 pp 86.0 wl 86.0 oa

Breadth, m

11.3

Draught, m

4.40

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 sets geared steam turbines, 3 boilers

Power, h. p.

6000

Max speed, kts

20

Fuel, t

coal + oil

Endurance, nm(kts)3000(14)
Armament

2 x 1 - 76/40 11-shiki, 2 x 2 - 25/60 96-shiki, 4 x 1 - 13.2/76, 360 mines, 4 DCT

Electronic equipment93-shiki sonar, 93-shiki hydrophone
Complement

199



Standard scale images


<i>Wakataka</i> 1941
Wakataka 1941


Project history

Former Japanese minelayer-netlayer Wakataka transferred to United Kingdom under reparations and commissioned by Royal Navy as Laburnum in November 1947.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.