Muroto in 1932 |
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Muroto class collier |
| Builders: | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries |
| Operators: | Imperial Japanese Navy |
| Built: | 1918 – 1919 |
| In commission: | 1918 – 1944 |
| Planned: | 2 |
| Completed: | 2 |
| Lost: | 2 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Collier |
| Displacement: | 8,215 long tons (8,347 t) standard 8,750 long tons (8,890 t) stading |
| Length: | 105.16 m (345 ft 0 in) Lpp |
| Beam: | 15.24 m (50 ft 0 in) |
| Draught: | 7.06 m (23 ft 2 in) |
| Propulsion: | 1 × three expansion stages reciprocating engine 2 × scotch boilers single shaft, 2,500 shp 1930 3 × Miyahara model water tube boilers |
| Speed: | 12.5 knots (14.4 mph; 23.2 km/h) 1930 14.0 knots (16.1 mph; 25.9 km/h) |
| Capacity: | 6,000 tons coal |
| Complement: | 124 |
| Armament: | 1918 • 2 × 120 mm (4.7 in) L/45 naval guns 1932 • 2 × 76.2 mm (3.00 in) L/40 AA guns |
The Muroto class collier (室戸型給炭艦, Muroto-gata Kyūtankan) was a class of collier of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), serving during the 1910s and the World War II. 2 vessels were built in 1918-19 under the Eight-four fleet plan.
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| Ship | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Completed | Fate |
| Muroto (室戸) | Mitsubishi, Kōbe Shipyard | 4 July 1918 | 23 October 1918 | 7 December 1918 | Sunk by USS Sea Dog at north of Amami Ōshima on 22 October 1944. |
| Nojima (野島) | Mitsubishi, Kōbe Shipyard | 16 July 1918 | 3 February 1919 | 31 March 1919 | Sunk during the Battle of the Bismarck Sea on 3 March 1943. |
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