W-13-class minesweeper#No.17 class

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|Name=No.13 class minesweeper

|Builders=*Fujinagata Shipyards

|Operators=20px Imperial Japanese Navy

|Class before=No.1 class

|Class after=No.7 class

|Subclasses=*No.13 class (Project Number I3A)

  • No.17 class (Project Number I3B)

|Cost= 1,330,000 JPY (in 1931)

|Built range=1931 – 1936

|In service range=

|In commission range=1933 – 1945

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|Total ships planned=6

|Total ships completed=6

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|Total ships lost=5

|Total ships retired=1

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|Ship propulsion=*2 × triple expansion stages reciprocating engines

  • 2 × Kampon mix-fired boilers
  • 2 shafts, 3,200 shp

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|Ship armament=*2 × 12 cm/45 10th Year Type naval gun L/45 naval guns

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  • 2 × Kampon mix-fired boilers
  • 2 shafts, 3,200 shp

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The {{nihongo|No.13 class minesweeper|第十三号型掃海艇,|Dai Jūsan Gō-gata Sōkaitei}} was a class of minesweepers of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), serving during the 1930s and World War II. 6 vessels were built in 1931-36 under the Maru 1 Keikaku. They have two sub classes, this article handles them collectively.

Background

  • Improved model of the No.1-class. The IJN tried to a small hull than No.1-class to give a performance the same as No.1-class. And this attempt failed when the vessels were discovered to be top heavy by an investigation of the fleet in the aftermath of the Tomozuru Incident.

Ships in classes

=<small>''No.13'' class</small>=

  • Project number I3A. 4 vessels were built in 1931-1934. No.15 and No.16 were behind with the completed by the Tomozuru Incident. They had clipper-bow.

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No.13{{nihongo|Minesweeper No.13|第十三号掃海艇|Dai 13 Gō Sōkaitei}}. The same shall apply hereinafter.

| Fujinagata Shipyards

| 22 December 1931

| 30 March 1933

| 31 August 1933

| Sunk by bombardment from Netherlands pillbox at Tarakan Island on 12 January 1942. Decommissioned on 30 November 1945.

No.14

| Ōsaka Iron Works

| 22 December 1933

| 20 March 1933

| 30 September 1933

| Sunk by bombardment from Netherlands pillbox at Tarakan Island on 12 January 1942. Decommissioned on 30 November 1945.

No.15

| Fujinagata Shipyards

| 6 April 1933

| 14 February 1934

| 21 August 1934

| Heavily damaged by USS Tilefish on 5 March 1945, later agrounded. Decommissioned on 10 May 1945.

No.16

| Mitsui, Tama Shipyard

| 20 June 1933

| 30 March 1934

| 29 September 1934

| Sunk by air raid off Makassar {{coord|06|08|S|119|20|E}} on 11 September 1943. Decommissioned on 11 November 1943.

=<small>''No.17'' class</small>=

  • Project number I3B. 2 vessels were built in 1935-1936. Improved model of the No.13-class. About their appearance, bow was changed to double-curvature bow and fitted Kampon geared turbine.

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No.17

| Ōsaka Iron Works

| 28 January 1935

| 3 August 1935

| 15 January 1936

| Decommissioned on 20 November 1945. Scrapped on 1 September 1948.

No.18

| Mitsui, Tama Shipyard

| 2 February 1935

| 19 September 1935

| 30 April 1936

| Sunk by air raid off Hainan {{coord|16|52|N|108|38|E}} on 26 November 1944. Decommissioned on 10 January 1945.

Photo

Image:Japanese minesweeper MSC16.jpg|No.16

Image:Japanese minesweeper MSC18.jpg|No.18

Footnotes

Bibliography

  • Ships of the World special issue Vol.45, Escort Vessels of the Imperial Japanese Navy, {{cite web |url=http://www.ships-net.co.jp/ |title=Kaijinsha}}, (Japan), February 1996
  • The Maru Special, Japanese Naval Vessels No.50, Japanese minesweepers and landing ships, {{cite web |url=http://www.kojinsha.co.jp/ |title=Ushio Shobō}} (Japan), April 1981

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Category:World War II mine warfare vessels of Japan

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Category:Mine warfare vessel classes

Category:Mine warfare vessels of the Imperial Japanese Navy