Irako in 1944 |
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Irako class food supply ship |
| Builders: | Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation |
| Operators: | Imperial Japanese Navy |
| Preceded by: | Mamiya |
| Cost: | 4,000,000 JPY as Irako [1] 17,378,000 JPY as Kusumi [2] |
| Built: | 1940–1941 |
| In commission: | 1941–1944 |
| Planned: | 1 (1937) + 1 (1942) |
| Completed: | 1 |
| Cancelled: | 1 |
| Lost: | 1 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 9,570 long tons (9,724 t) standard 11,100 long tons (11,278 t) trial |
| Length: | 145.0 m (475 ft 9 in) overall 143.5 m (470 ft 10 in) waterline |
| Beam: | 19.0 m (62 ft 4 in) |
| Draught: | 6.05 m (19 ft 10 in) |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Kampon turbines 6 x Kampon boilers 2 shafts, 8,300 shp |
| Speed: | 17.5 knots (20.1 mph; 32.4 km/h) |
| Complement: | 361 |
| Armament: |
4 x 120 mm (4.7 in) L/45 10th Year Type AA guns some depth charges |
| Armour: | none |
Irako (伊良湖) was a Japanese food supply ship, serving during the Second World War.
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She was built in 1937 under the 3rd Naval Armaments Supplement Programme, in preparation for the anticipated war with the United States. She was intended to supplement the Combined Fleet's existing food supply ship Mamiya. Her design was similar to that of Mamiya, but she was smaller. Her warehouse was able to supply 25,000 men over two weeks. A sister ship, Kusumi, was planned in 1942 under the Modified 5th Naval Armaments Supplement Programme, but construction was cancelled after the start of the Solomon Islands campaign.
| Ship # | Ship | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Completed | Fate |
| 74 | Irako (伊良湖) | Kawasaki, Kōbe Shipyard | 30 May 1940 | 14 February 1941 | 5 December 1941 | Scuttled on 24 September 1944 at Coron Bay. |
| 5408 | Kusumi (久須見) | Cancelled on 5 May 1944. |
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