Momo class
 Destroyer of Momo class
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The Momo class ( Japanese 型 駆 逐 艦 , Momo-gata kuchikukan ) was a class of four destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy which was built during the First World War and was in service until the 1940s.
history
Development history
Under the First Phase of the First Eight-Eight Flottenbauprogramms ( Hachi-Hachi Kantai ) presented the Imperial Japanese Navy, from 1915, the four battleships Fuso - and Ise class in service. The destroyers of the Isokaze class were intended as escort vehicles for these . Since the Navy could not afford to build many large destroyers (1st class destroyers), it was decided to build another class of medium-sized destroyers (2nd class destroyers). These ships were a scaled-down version of the Isokaze class, with three instead of four 12 cm guns and six torpedo tubes, which were first used in the Japanese Navy in triple tube sets.
Four units were approved in the financial year 1915 and the construction contracts were awarded to the two naval shipyards in Maizuru and Sasebo . Which the boats laid on keel from February 1916 and completed by May 1917.
Manchukuo
On May 1, 1937, the Kashi was handed over to the Navy of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo and put into service as Hai Wei . There she served until June 1942 and was then returned to the Japanese Navy, which she used as a patrol boat with the name Kari .
List of ships
| Surname | Shipyard | Keel laying | Launch | Commissioning | Whereabouts |
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Momo ( 桃 ) |
Sasebo naval shipyard | February 28, 1916 | October 12, 1916 | December 23, 1916 | 1940 decommissioned and scrapped |
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Kashi ( 樫 ) |
Maizuru naval shipyard | March 15, 1916 | December 1, 1916 | March 31, 1917 | As an escort ship Kari sunk on October 10, 1944 by an American air raid by Task Force 38 off Okinawa |
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Hinoki ( 檜 ) |
Maizuru naval shipyard | May 5, 1916 | December 25, 1916 | March 31, 1917 | 1940 decommissioned and scrapped |
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Yanagi ( 柳 ) |
Sasebo naval shipyard | October 21, 1916 | February 24, 1917 | May 5, 1917 | Put out of service in 1940 and as Hulk used in 1947 Ominato scrapped |
technology
hull
The hull of a Momo- class destroyer was 85.8 meters long, 7.7 meters wide and had a draft of 2.3 meters with an operational displacement of 1,100 tons . The crew consisted of 110 men.
drive
It was driven by two geared turbines with four Kampon steam boilers , with which a total output of 16,000 PS (11,768 kW ) was achieved. The power was delivered to two shafts with one screw each . The top speed was 31.5 knots (58 km / h ). 212 tons of heavy oil and 92 tons of coal could be bunkered, which led to a maximum driving distance of 2400 nautical miles (4445 km) at 15 knots.
Armament
When commissioned, the armament consisted of three 12 cm type 41 guns with a caliber length of 40 , they were set up in the midship line - one in front of the bridge structure, one between the two funnels and one behind the aft deckhouse. There were two 6.5 mm Type 3 machine guns for anti-aircraft defense and two sets of triple torpedo tubes in 53.3 cm caliber as torpedo armament.
literature
- Hansgeorg Jentschura, Dieter Jung and Peter Mickel: Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy 1869-1945 . US Naval Institute Press, Annapolis 1977, ISBN 0-87021-893-X , pp. 135-136 .
- Harald Fock: Fleet Chronicle - The active warships involved in the two world wars and their whereabouts . Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-7822-0788-2 , p. 173-200 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Type-41 12 cm cannon. In: navweaps.com. Retrieved February 23, 2020 .