HMS Thracian (1920)

HMS Thracian (1920)
HMS Thracian in 1941
Career (United Kingdom)
Name:	HMS Thracian (D86)
Ordered:	1915
Builder:	Hawthorn Leslie and Company Sheerness Dockyard
Laid down:	17 January 1918
Launched:	5 March 1920
Commissioned:	1 April 1922
Fate:	Agrounded on 25 December 1941 at Aberdeen
General characteristics HMS Thracian
Class & type:	Admiralty S class destroyer
Displacement:	1,075 long ton
Length:	276 ft (84 m) o/a
Beam:	26 ft 9 in (8.15 m)
Draught:	10 ft 10 in (3.30 m)
Propulsion:	Brown-Curtis, steam turbines, 2 shafts, 27,000 shp
Speed:	36 knots
Range:	250-300 tons of oil
Complement:	90
Armament:	3 × QF 4-inch (101.6 mm) Mark IV guns, mount P Mk. IX 1 × QF 2 pdr Mark II "pom-pom" 4 × Lewis Guns 2 × twin tubes for 21 in torpedoes 2 × fixed 14 in tubes for torpedoes (later removed)
Career (Japan)
Name:	Patrol Boat No. 101 (第101号哨戒艇, Dai-101-Gō Shōkaitei)
Builder:	Navy 2nd Construction Department at Hong Kong
Acquired:	1942
Commissioned:	1 October 1942
Decommissioned:	1945
In service:	1942-1945
Renamed:	15 March 1944 Special Training Ship No. 1 (特第1号練習艇, Toku Dai-1-Gō Renshūtei)
Reclassified:	15 March 1944, Training Ship
Reinstated:	Returnd to Royal Navy in October 1945
Fate:	Scrapped in February 1946
General characteristics Patrol Boat No.101
Class & type:	Patrol boat/Training ship
Displacement:	1,150 long tons (1,168 t) standard
Length:	80.79 m (265 ft 1 in) Lpp
Beam:	8.17 m (26 ft 10 in)
Draft:	3.01 m (9 ft 11 in)
Propulsion:	2 × Brown-Curtis turbines, 3 × Yarrow water tube boilers, 2 shafts, 10,000 shp
Speed:	25 knots (29 mph; 46 km/h)
Complement:	December 1943 119 March 1944 113
Sensors and processing systems:	Mk. 23 gunfire control radar (1944)
Armament:	25 November 1942 3 × QF 4-inch (101.6 mm) Mark IV guns 15 March 1944 4 × Type 92 610 mm TTs 2 × 6th Year Type 533 mm TTs 2 × Type 93 13 mm AA guns 1 × Type 94 depth charge thrower 10 × Type 95 depth charges

HMS Thracian was an Admiralty S class destroyer of the Royal Navy.

HMS Thracian was laid down on 17 January 1918 at Hawthorn Leslie and Company, launched on 5 March 1920 and completed at Sheerness Dockyard on 1 April 1922.

Royal Navy service (1922 – 1941)

• 25 December 1941: She was agrounded and scuttled at Hong Kong, later captured by the Imperial Japanese Army.

Imperial Japanese Navy service (1942 – 1945)

IJN Patrol Boat No. 101 in 1942

IJN Special Training Ship No. 1 in 1945

• 1 October 1942: Registered to naval ship list in the Imperial Japanese Navy, and classification to the Special service ship (Patrol boat). Renamed

Patrol Boat No. 101.

• 25 November 1942: Repairs were completed by the Navy 2nd Construction Department, and assigned to the Yokosuka Naval District.
• (after): She spent her time on convoy escort operations in the Yokosuka Area.
• 15 August 1943: Assigned to the Torpedo warfare school (Yokosuka).
• 15 March 1944: Classification to the miscellaneous ship (Training ship), and renamed Special Training Ship No. 1. She was used for a test bed of the new weapons.
• 15 August 1945: Survived war at Yokosuka.
• October 1945: Returned to Royal Navy.
• February 1946: Scrapped at Hong Kong.

Bibliography

• Rekishi Gunzō, History of Pacific War Vol.45, Truth histories of the Imperial Japanese Naval Vessels, Gakken (Japanese publisher), May 2004, ISBN 4-05-603412-5.
• Ships of the World, special issue Vol.45, Escort Vessels of the Imperial Japanese Navy, "Kaijinsha". http://www.ships-net.co.jp/. , (Japan), 1996.
• The Maru Special, Japanese Naval Vessels No.49, "Japanese submarine chasers and patrol boats", "Ushio Shobō". http://www.kojinsha.co.jp/.  (Japan), 1981.