Yomogi (ship, 1922)
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| Technical data up to 1939 as Yomogi | |
| Ship type : | 2nd class destroyer |
| Displacement : | 770 ts standard |
| Length: | 83.8 m |
| Width: | 7.9 m |
| Draft : | 2.4 m |
| Drive : | 3 steam boilers 2 steam turbines 21,500 PSw |
| Speed : | 36 kn |
| Range: | 3000 nm at 15 knots |
| Crew : | 110 |
| Armament: | 3 × 12 cm L / 45 guns (3 × 1) 2 × 7.7 mm anti-aircraft guns (2 × 1) 4 × 53.3 cm torpedo tubes (2 × 2) |
| Technical data from 1940 as patrol boat No. 38 | |
| Ship type : | Patrol boat |
| Displacement : | 935 ts standard |
| Length: | 83.8 m |
| Width: | 7.9 m |
| Draft : | 2.4 m |
| Drive : | 2 steam boilers 2 steam turbines 12,000 PSw |
| Speed : | 18 kn |
| Range: | |
| Crew : | |
| Armament: | 2 × 12 cm L / 45 guns (2 × 1) 6 × 2.5 cm Flak 60 depth charges |
The Yomogi ( Jap. 蓬 , German " mugwort ") was a destroyer second class of the Imperial Japanese Navy and was one Momi class at. It was laid down at the Ishikawajima Zosensho shipyard in Tokyo on February 26, 1921 , and commissioned on August 9, 1922. In 1939/40, it was converted to patrol boat No. 38 (Japanese 第 38 号 哨 戒 艇 , Dai-38 -gō shōkaitei , also known as PC-38 ). The ship was sunk in World War II .
The name giver for this class of ship was the destroyer Momi . They were the first Japanese destroyers that were not built according to British models. A total of twenty-one units of this class were built. Since the main armament (12 cm guns) were placed in a central line and the torpedo tubes between the forecastle and the bridge, the seaworthiness of these small destroyers improved considerably. The speed of 36 knots and the shallow draft also made the ships excellent destroyers in shallow coastal waters.
From 1939 fourteen of the seventeen remaining units of this class were converted, nine became patrol boats and five became training ships / tenders.
The Yomogi was renamed to Patrol Boat No. 38 after reconstruction . By the time the conversion work was completed in 1940, one of the machinery was removed, the stern was modified to accommodate a Daihatsu landing craft (approx. 14 m long, loading capacity 1 tank or 70 men or 10 tons of material) and accommodations for 150 men landing troops were set up. In addition, the armament was adapted to the changed needs, especially for the defense against submarine and aircraft attacks. In order to improve stability, the water displacement was increased to 935 tons by additional ballast.
The patrol boat no. 38 participated in several Japanese landing operations at the start of the Japanese advance Arschs in the Pacific during World War II. When landing at Tarakan (January 1942) it sank along with the destroyers Yamakaze the Dutch minelayer Hr. Ms. Prins van Oranje . After that the ship took part in the landing on Borneo .
On November 25, 1944, it was attacked and sunk in the Strait of Bashi by the American submarine USS Atule (position: 20 ° 12 ′ N , 121 ° 51 ′ E ).
literature
- Anthony J. Watts: Japanese Warships of World War II
- Francis E. McMurtrie (Ed.): Jane's Fighting Ships of World War II . ISBN 0-517-67963-9
- J. Rohwer, G. Hummelchen: Chronology of the war at sea 1939-1945 . Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, ISBN 1-55750-105-X