Nosaki (as Nankai) trial run in 1941 |
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Name: | Nosaki |
Namesake: | Nosaki Point |
Ordered: | fiscal 1939 |
Builder: | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Shimonoseki shipyard |
Cost: | 1,574,000 JPY |
Laid down: | 18 October 1939 |
Launched: | 22 July 1940 |
Completed: | 18 March 1941 |
Decommissioned: | struck on 10 March 1945 |
Renamed: | Support ship No.4007 Nankai on 25 October 1940 Nosaki on 1 April 1942 |
Reclassified: | Miscellaneous service ship as built Food supply ship on 1 April 1942 |
Fate: | sunk by USN submarine on 28 December 1944 |
General characteristics | |
Type: | Food supply ship |
Displacement: | 640 long tons (650 t) standard |
Length: | 48.37 m (158.7 ft) waterline |
Beam: | 8.20 m (26 ft 11 in) |
Draught: | 2.88 m (9 ft 5 in) |
Propulsion: | 2 × Kampon Mk.23B model 6 diesels, 2 shafts, 1,200 bhp |
Speed: | 13 knots (15 mph; 24 km/h) |
Range: | 2,000 nmi (3,700 km) at 12 kn (14 mph; 22 km/h) |
Endurance: | • Fuel: 39 tons oil |
Capacity: | • 43.1 tons frozen food • 40 tons fresh water |
Complement: | 35 |
Armament: | 1 × 76.2 mm (3.00 in) L/40 AA gun |
The Nosaki (野埼 ) was a food supply ship (reefer ship) of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) serving during the World War II, the only ship of her class.
In 1939, the IJN planned two food supply ships for China Area Fleet under the Maru 4 Programme. One was the 1000 ton Kinesaki (initial named Support ship No.4006), the other the 600 ton Nosaki (initial named Support ship No.4007). Their duty was deliver fresh fish to the fleet. Therefore they installed a large freezer in the hull, and their appearance looked just like fishing trawler. The IJN compared Kinesaki with Nosaki, and they decided to mass-produce Kinesaki.
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