HMS Thracian (1920)
HMS Thracian following its capture and impressment into Japanese service |
| Career (United Kingdom) |
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| Name: |
HMS Thracian (D86) |
| Ordered: |
1915 |
| Builder: |
Hawthorn Leslie and Company
Sheerness Dockyard |
| Laid down: |
17 January 1918 |
| Launched: |
5 March 1920 |
| Commissioned: |
1 April 1922 |
| Fate: |
Agrounded on 25 December 1941 at Aberdeen |
| General characteristics HMS Thracian |
| Class and type: |
Admiralty S class destroyer |
| Displacement: |
1,075 tons |
| Length: |
276 ft (84 m) o/a |
| Beam: |
26 ft 9 in (8.15 m) |
| Draught: |
10 ft 10 in (3.30 m) |
| Propulsion: |
Brown-Curtis, steam turbines, 2 shafts, 27,000 shp |
| Speed: |
36 knots |
| Range: |
250-300 tons of oil |
| Complement: |
90 |
| Armament: |
3 × QF 4-inch (101.6 mm) Mark IV guns, mount P Mk. IX
1 × QF 2 pdr Mark II "pom-pom"
4 × Lewis Guns
2 × twin tubes for 21 in torpedoes
2 × fixed 14 in tubes for torpedoes (later removed) |
| Career (Japan) |
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| Name: |
Patrol Boat No.101
(第101号哨戒艇?) |
| Builder: |
Navy 2nd Construction Department at Hong Kong |
| Acquired: |
1942 |
| Commissioned: |
1 October 1942 |
| Decommissioned: |
1945 |
| In service: |
1942-1945 |
| Renamed: |
15 March 1944
Special Training Ship No.1
(特第1号練習艇?) |
| Reclassified: |
15 March 1944, Training Ship |
| Reinstated: |
Returnd to Royal Navy in October 1945 |
| Fate: |
Scrapped in February 1946 |
| General characteristics Patrol Boat No.101 |
| Class and type: |
Patrol boat/Training ship |
| Displacement: |
1,150 long tons (1,168 t) standard |
| Length: |
80.79 m (265 ft 1 in) Lpp |
| Beam: |
8.17 m (26 ft 10 in) |
| Draft: |
3.01 m (9 ft 11 in) |
| Propulsion: |
2 × Brown-Curtis turbines,
3 × Yarrow water tube boilers,
2 shafts, 10,000 shp |
| Speed: |
25 knots (29 mph; 46 km/h) |
| Complement: |
December 1943
119
March 1944
113 |
Sensors and
processing systems: |
Mk.23 gunfire control radar |
| Armament: |
25 November 1942
3 × QF 4-inch (101.6 mm) Mark IV guns
15 March 1944
4 × Type 92 610 mm TTs
2 × 6th Year Type 533 mm TTs
2 × Type 93 13 mm AA guns
1 × Type 94 depth charge thrower
10 × Type 95 depth charges |
HMS Thracian was an Admiralty S class destroyer of the Royal Navy.
HMS Thracian was laid down on 17 January 1918 at Hawthorn Leslie and Company, launched on 5 March 1920 and completed at Sheerness Dockyard on 1 April 1922.
Royal Navy service (1922 – 1941)
Imperial Japanese Navy service (1942 – 1945)
- 1 October 1942: Registered to naval ship list in the Imperial Japanese Navy, and classification to the Special service ship (Patrol boat). Renamed
Patrol Boat No.101.
- 25 November 1942: Repairs were completed by the Navy 2nd Construction Department, and assigned to the Yokosuka Naval District.
- (after): She spent her time on convoy escort operations in the Yokosuka Area.
- 15 August 1943: Assigned to the Torpedo warfare school (Yokosuka).
- 15 March 1944: Classification to the Special service ship (Training ship), and renamed Special Training Ship No.1. She was used for a test bed of the new weapons.
- 15 August 1945: Survived war at Yokosuka.
- October 1945: Returned to Royal Navy.
- February 1946: Scrapped at Hong Kong.
Bibliography
- Rekishi Gunzō, History of Pacific War Vol.45, Truth histories of the Imperial Japanese Naval Vessels, Gakken (Japanese publisher), May 2004, ISBN 4-05-603412-5
- Ships of the World special issue Vol.45, Escort Vessels of the Imperial Japanese Navy, "Kaijinsha". http://www.ships-net.co.jp/. , (Japan), February 1996
- The Maru Special, Japanese Naval Vessels No.49, Japanese submarine chasers and patrol boats, "Ushio Shobō". http://www.kojinsha.co.jp/. (Japan), March 1981
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