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Hatsutaka class minelayer

Japanese minelayer Hatsutaka 1939.jpg
Hatsutaka in 1939
Class overview
Name:
  • Hatsutaka-class minelayers
  • Hatsutaka-class
  • Wakataka-class
  • Asadori-class (only a project)
Builders: Harima Zōsen Corporation
Operators:
Preceded by: Shirataka
Cost:
  • 4,733,000 JPY (Hatsutaka)
  • 4,900,000 JPY (Wakataka)
Built: 1938 – 1941
In commission: 1939 – 1946 (IJN)
Planned: 4
Completed: 3
Cancelled: 1
Lost: 2
Retired: 1
General characteristics
Type: Minelayer/Netlayer
Displacement: 1,600 long tons (1,626 t) standard
Length:
  • 91.00 m (298 ft 7 in) overall
  • 86.50 m (283 ft 10 in) waterline
Beam: 11.30 m (37 ft 1 in)
Draught: 4.0 m (13 ft 1 in)
Propulsion:
  • 2 × Kampon geared turbines
  • 3 × Kampon coal/oil-fired boilers
  • 2 shafts, 6,000 shp
Speed: 20.0 knots (23.0 mph; 37.0 km/h)
Range: 3,000 nmi (5,600 km) at 14 kn (16 mph; 26 km/h)
Complement:
  • Hatsutaka and Aotaka
  • 199
  • Wakataka
  • 202
Armament:
  • Hatsutaka, 1939
  • 4 × 40 mm heavy machine guns
  • 18 × Type 95 depth charges
  • 1 × Type 94 depth charge projector
  • 4 × depth charge throwers
  • 1 × Type 93 active sonar
  • 1 × Type 93 hydrophone
  • 24 × Type 96 510 m (1,673 ft 3 in) anti-submarine nets or 100 × Type 93 naval mines
  • Wakataka, 1941
  • 2 × 76.2 mm (3.00 in) L/40 AA guns
  • 4 × Type 93 13.2 mm (0.52 in) AA guns
  • 18 × Type 95 depth charges
  • 1 × Type 94 depth charge projector
  • 4 × depth charge throwers
  • 1 × Type 93 active sonar
  • 1 × Type 93 hydrophone
  • 24 × Type 96 510 m (1,673 ft 3 in) anti-submarine nets or 100 × Type 93 naval mines

The Hatsutaka-class minelayer (初鷹型敷設艦,, Hatsutaka-gata Fusetsukan) was a class of minelayers of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), serving during World War II. They have three sub classes, this article handles them collectively.

Aotaka in June 1940 at Harima Zōsen.

Wakataka as repatriation transport in Spring 1947 at Sasebo Naval Base.


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