No.7 on 23 September 1942 |
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Class overview | |
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Name: | No.7 class minesweeper |
Builders: | Maizuru Naval Arsenal Tama Shipyard Tōkyō Ishikawajima Shipyard Uraga Dock Company |
Operators: | Imperial Japanese Navy |
Preceded by: | No.13-class |
Succeeded by: | No.19-class |
Cost: | 2,230,823 JPY (in 1937) |
Built: | 1937 – 1939 |
In commission: | 1938 – 1946 |
Planned: | 6 |
Completed: | 6 |
Lost: | 5 |
Retired: | 1 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement: | 630 long tons (640 t) standard |
Length: | 72.50 m (237 ft 10 in) overall |
Beam: | 7.85 m (25 ft 9 in) |
Draught: | 2.60 m (8 ft 6 in) |
Propulsion: | 2 × triple expansion stages reciprocating engines 2 × Kampon mix-fired boilers 2 shafts, 3,850 shp |
Speed: | 20.0 knots (23.0 mph; 37.0 km/h) |
Range: | 2,000 nmi (3,700 km) at 14 kn (16 mph; 26 km/h) |
Complement: | 98 |
Armament: | • 3 × 120 mm (4.7 in) L/45 naval guns • 2 × 25 mm AA guns • 36 × depth charges • 1 × Type 94 depth charge projector • 6 × paravanes |
The No.7 class minesweeper (第七号型掃海艇, Dai Nana Gō-gata Sōkaitei ) was a class of minesweepers of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), serving during the Second Sino-Japanese War and the World War II. 6 vessels were built in 1937-39 under the Maru 3 Keikaku.
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Ship # | Ship | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Completed | Fate |
49 | No.7 [2] | Tama Shipyard | 27 October 1937 | 16 June 1938 | 15 December 1938 | Sunk by HMS Storm off Port Blair on 15 April 1944. Decommissioned on 10 June 1944. |
50 | No.8 | Uraga Dock Company | 11 December 1937 | 28 May 1938 | 15 February 1939 | Scuttled by Royal Navy at Singapore on 10 July 1946. Decommissioned on 10 August 1946. |
51 | No.9 | Maizuru Naval Arsenal | 7 February 1938 | 10 September 1938 | 15 February 1939 | Struck a naval mine and sunk at Ambon on 1 February 1942. Decommissioned on 10 April 1942. |
52 | No.10 | Tōkyō Ishikawajima Shipyard | 21 December 1937 | 22 September 1938 | 15 February 1939 | Sunk by air raid off Vigan on 10 December 1941. Decommissioned on 15 March 1942. |
53 | No.11 | Uraga Dock Company | 30 May 1938 | 28 December 1938 | 15 July 1939 | Sunk by air raid off Makassar on 28 March 1945. Decommissioned on 10 May 1945. |
54 | No.12 | Tōkyō Ishikawajima Shipyard | 28 May 1938 | 18 February 1939 | 15 August 1939 | Sunk by USS Besugo off Flores on 6 April 1945. Decommissioned on 25 May 1945. |
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