Shirataka (ship, 1929)
Shirataka in 1929
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The Shirataka ( Japanese 白鷹 ) was a minesheet / net- laying machine for the Imperial Japanese Navy , which was built in the late 1920s and used in World War II .
history
Development history and construction
Under the budget for 1923, the Japanese Navy was granted funds to supplement its aging mine-laying population. At the time, this consisted of the Katsuriki and the two former armored cruisers Aso and Tokiwa . The Navy then developed a large draft H-1 (the later Itsukushima - with around 2000 tons and diesel propulsion), and a small draft H-2 (the later Shirataka - with about 1500 tons displacement and turbine drive), which were used during the First World War should reflect gained operating experience.
The construction contract for the later Shirataka was awarded to Ishikawajima-Harima . This put the hull on November 24, 1927 at their shipyard ( Ishikawajima Zōsen ) in Tokyo on keel. The launch took place on January 25, 1929 and the commissioning on April 9, 1929 under the command of Kaigun-chūsa ( frigate captain ) Sonoda Shigeru, who had been the so-called Supreme Equipment Officer since January 15, 1929 ( Japanese 艤 装 員 長 , gisō inchō ) had been entrusted with the building instruction .
Surname
The Shirataka is after the torpedo boat of the same name , the second warship a Japanese Marine which this name bears.
List of commanders
No. | Surname | Beginning of the term of office | Term expires | Remarks |
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1. | Frigate Captain Sonoda Shigeru | April 9, 1929 | November 5, 1929 | entrusted with building instruction since January 15, 1929 |
2. | Frigate Captain Motoizumi Takeshi | November 5, 1929 | December 1, 1931 | |
3. | Frigate Captain Yamamura Minoru | December 1, 1931 | December 1, 1932 | |
4th | Frigate Captain Kaneko Toyokichi | December 1, 1932 | November 15, 1933 | |
5. | Sea captain Hozumi Tatsuo | November 15, 1933 | October 22, 1934 | |
5. | Frigate Captain Ikeda Shichiro | October 22, 1934 | November 15, 1935 | |
6th | Frigate Captain Inagaki Yoshiaki | November 15, 1935 | November 16, 1936 | |
7th | Frigate Captain Itagaki Yukihazu | November 16, 1936 | July 28, 1937 | |
8th. | Frigate Captain Inada Yoshiaki | July 28, 1937 | December 15, 1938 | |
9. | Sea captain Kanemasu Yoshio | December 15, 1938 | November 15, 1939 | |
10. | Sea captain Imamura Yukihiko | November 15, 1939 | November 1, 1940 | |
11. | Frigate Captain Marikawa Matao | November 1, 1940 | September 10, 1941 | |
12. | Frigate captain / sea captain Hamano Motokazu | September 10, 1941 | May 15, 1942 | |
13. | Sea captain Wada Sumihisa | May 15, 1942 | April 13, 1943 | |
14th | Sea captain Miki Takahide | April 13, 1943 | August 31, 1944 | killed when the ship went down |
technology
hull
The hull of the Shirataka was 84 meters long, 11.55 meters wide and had a draft of 3.1 meters with an operational displacement of 1719 tons .
drive
It was driven by two coal-fired steam generators - Kampon boilers of the Yarrow type - and two geared turbine sets with which a total output of 2000 HP (1471 kW ) was achieved. These gave their power to two shafts with one screw each . The top speed was 16 knots (30 km / h ). 300 tons of coal could be bunkered, which led to a maximum driving distance of 1,800 nautical miles (3,334 km) at 10 knots.
crew
The crew had a strength of 175 men.
Armament
When commissioned, the artillery armament consisted of three 12 cm guns with a caliber length of 45 and a machine gun for air defense . Furthermore, up to 100 sea mines and six barrier nets could be carried.
literature
- 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 .
- Hansgeorg Jentschura, Dieter Jung, Peter Mickel: Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy 1869-1945 . US Naval Institute Press, Annapolis 1977, ISBN 0-87021-893-X , pp. 197-198 .