Tsubame class minelayer
Tsubame in April 1929 |
| Class overview |
| Name: |
Tsubame class minelayer |
| Builders: |
Yokohama Dock Company
Ōsaka Iron Works |
| Operators: |
Imperial Japanese Navy |
| Preceded by: |
Sokuten-class |
| Succeeded by: |
Natsushima-class |
| Built: |
1928–1929 |
| In commission: |
1929–1945 |
| Planned: |
2 |
| Completed: |
2 |
| Lost: |
2 |
| General characteristics |
| Type: |
Netlayer/Minelayer |
| Displacement: |
450 long tons (457 t) standard |
| Length: |
68.80 m (225 ft 9 in) overall |
| Beam: |
7.20 m (23 ft 7 in) |
| Draught: |
2.10 m (6 ft 11 in) |
| Propulsion: |
2 × triple expansion stages reciprocating engines
2 × Kampon mix-fired boilers
2 shafts, 2,500 shp |
| Speed: |
19.0 knots (21.9 mph; 35.2 km/h) |
| Range: |
1,200 nmi (2,200 km) at 10 kn (12 mph; 19 km/h) |
| Complement: |
43 |
| Armament: |
• 1 × 76.2 mm (3.00 in) L/40 AA gun
• 1 × 12 mm machine guns
• 36 × Type 95 depth charges
• 2 × Type 81 depth charge throwers
• 80 × Mk.5 naval mines or 18 × depth charges or 6 × Type 14 502.5 m capture nets |
The Tsubame class minelayer (燕型敷設艇,, Tsubame-gata Fusetsutei?) was a class of minelayers of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), serving during and after 1929 through World War II.
Ships in class
Tsubame (燕?)
- 17 September 1928: Laid down as the Capture netlayer (捕獲網艇, Hokakumōtei?) at Yokohama Dock Company.
- 22 March 1929: Reclassified to 2nd class minelayer (二等敷設艇, Nitō-Fusetsutei?).
- 24 April 1929: Launched.
- 10 July 1929: Completed.
- 30 May 1931: Reclassified to Special service ship (特務艇, Tokumutei?).
- In 1936: Rebuilding by the Tomozuru Incident at Sasebo Naval Arsenal.
- In 1938: Sortie for the Second Sino-Japanese War.
- 18 December 1941: Sortie for the invasion of the Lingayen Gulf.
- (after): She spent all her time on convoy escort operations in East China Sea and Java Sea.
- 1 February 1944: Reclassified to Minelayer (敷設艇, Fusetsutei?).
- 1 March 1945: Sunk by air raid from U.S. Navy aircraft carrier at Ishigaki Island.
- 10 May 1945: Decommissioned.
Kamome (鷗?)
- 11 October 1928: Laid down as the Capture netlayer at Ōsaka Iron Works.
- 22 March 1929: Reclassified to 2nd class minelayer.
- 27 April 1929: Launched.
- 30 August 1929: Completed.
- 30 May 1931: Reclassified to Special service ship.
- In 1936: Rebuilding by the Tomozuru Incident at Sasebo Naval Arsenal.
- In 1938: Sortie for the Second Sino-Japanese War.
- 18 December 1941: Sortie for the invasion of the Lingayen Gulf.
- (after): She spent all her time on convoy escort operations in East China Sea, South China Sea and Java Sea.
- 1 February 1944: Reclassified to Minelayer.
- 27 April 1944: Sunk by USS Halibut at north off Naha .
- 10 June 1944: Decommissioned.
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