Tategami-class salvage tugboat | |
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File:HIJMS Tategami.jpg IJN Tategami (left) | |
Class overview | |
Name: | 800-ton salvage tugboat |
Builders: |
Maizuru Naval Arsenal Harima Zōsen Corporation Mitsubishi Heavy Industries |
Operators: |
Imperial Japanese Navy Japan Maritime Safety Agency Royal Thai Navy Nippon Salvage Company Tōyō Salvage K.K. Kawanami Kōgyō Corporation Kambara Kisen Company |
Preceded by: |
Yodohashi as Tategami-class Kasashima-class as Miura-class |
Succeeded by: | Kasashima-class as Tategami-class |
Subclasses: |
Tategami-class Miura-class |
Cost: | 700,000 JPY as Tategami [1] |
Built: |
1936–1940 as Tategami-class 1944–1947 as Miura-class |
In commission: |
1937–1968 (Japan) 1958–1979 (Thailand) |
Planned: | 6 |
Completed: | 5 (+ 1, postwar) |
Lost: | 2 (+ 1, postwar) |
Retired: | 3 |
General characteristics Tategami-class | |
Type: | Salvage tugboat |
Displacement: |
Tategami 812 long tons (825 t) [2][3] Nagaura 800 long tons (813 t) [4] |
Length: |
53.5 m (175 ft 6 in) o/a [2][5] 50.5 m (165 ft 8 in) wl [5] 49.0 m (160 ft 9 in) lpp [5] |
Beam: | 9.5 m (31 ft 2 in) [5] |
Draught: | 3.3 m (10 ft 10 in) [5] |
Draft: |
Tategami 4.8 m (15 ft 9 in) [3] Nagaura 4.812 m (15 ft 9.4 in) [4] |
Propulsion: |
2 × reciprocating engines,[2][3][4] 2 × mix-fired water tube boilers,[3][6] 2 shafts,[6] Tategami 2,278 ihp [3] Nagaura 2,375 shp [4] |
Speed: |
Tategami 15.37 knots (17.69 mph; 28.47 km/h) [3] Nagaura 15.25 knots (17.55 mph; 28.24 km/h) [4] |
Range: | approx. 1,000 nmi (1,900 km) at 10 kn (12 mph; 19 km/h) [5][7] |
Endurance: | • Fuel: 100 tons coal and 70 tons oil [8] |
Complement: |
64 [7] 9 officer and warrant officer 55 sailor, engineer and diver |
Armament: |
latter part of the Pacific War [2][9] • 2 × Type 96 25 mm AA guns • 6 × depth charges |
General characteristics Miura-class | |
Type: | Salvage tugboat |
Displacement: | 883 long tons (897 t) [9] |
Length: |
53.5 m (175 ft 6 in) o/a [10] 49.0 m (160 ft 9 in) lpp [9] |
Beam: | 9.5 m (31 ft 2 in) [9] |
Draught: | 3.4 m (11 ft 2 in) [9] |
Draft: | 5.03 m (16 ft 6 in) [11] |
Propulsion: |
[10] 2 × reciprocating engines, 2 shafts, 2,200 shp |
Speed: | 11.0 knots (12.7 mph; 20.4 km/h) [9] |
Armament: |
[9] • 2 × Type 96 25 mm AA guns • 6 × depth charges |
The Tategami-class salvage tugboat (立神型救難船兼曳船, Tategami-gata Kyūnansen-ken-eisen ) was a class of rescue ship/tugboat of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), serving during World War II. The class consists simplify production model the Miura-class (三浦型 ) variant, which this article handles collectively. The IJN official designation was 800-ton salvage tugboat (八〇〇瓲救難船兼曳船, 800-ton Kyūnansen-ken-eisen ) for all vessels.[12]
Background[]
Under the Russo-Japanese War, the IJN purchased many steamships and converted them to salvage vessels. However, when they entered in 1930s, deterioration became remarkable. The IJN planned Tategami-class to update them.
Ships in classes[]
Tategami class[]
The IJN was going to build Tategami-class one by one for three years from fiscal year 1936, at first. However, the plan came to a deadlock for budget shortage by the second year. The IJN postponed building of second ship Oshima for two years.
Ship | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Completed | Fate |
Tategami (立神 )[13] ex-Salvage tugboat No. 941 |
Harima Zōsen | 27 May 1936 as Salvage tugboat No. 941 [3][14] | 29 August 1936 [3] | 25 January 1937 as Tategami [3] |
Renamed Tategami on 22 January 1937.[14] Survived war; decommissioned on 30 November 1945. Sold to Nippon Salvage Company and renamed Tategami Maru (立神丸 ) in 1945. Retired in 1968. |
one vessel [15] | Converted to Kasashima-class, because naval budget was short.[15] | ||||
Oshima (雄島 ) | Maizuru Naval Arsenal | fiscal year 1939 [15][16] | Sunk in an accident in Truk (Tonowas) on 10 October 1943.[17] | ||
Nagaura (長浦 ) | Harima Zōsen | 11 January 1940 [4] | 16 May 1940 [4] | 21 October 1940 [4] | Sunk by USN Destroyer Squadron 23 off Kavieng 00°54′S 148°38′E / 0.9°S 148.633°E with minelayer Natsushima on 22 February 1944. |
Miura class[]
Simplify and speed-up construction model of the Tategami-class. The Kampon introduced wartime standard ship structures into a Tategami drawings.[18]
Ship | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Completed | Fate |
Miura (三浦 ) | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Shimonoseki shipyard | 5 May 1944 | 7 September 1944 | 25 December 1944 | Survived war; decommissioned on 30 November 1945; renamed Miura Maru (三浦丸 ) in postwar. Transferred to Japan Maritime Safety Agency on 4 August 1949; renamed Miura (みうら PL-01, later PL-101 ) on 15 December; retired on 3 June 1967. |
Yumihari (弓張 ) | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Shimonoseki shipyard | 15 July 1944 | 16 December 1944 | 12 March 1945 | Survived war; decommissioned on 30 November 1945. Transferred to Tōyō Salvage K.K. and renamed Yumihari Maru (弓張丸 ) in 1945, sold to Kawanami Kōgyō Corporation in 1947. Sold to Thailand and renamed Rangkwien in 1958.[19] Decommissioned on 30 April 1979.[20] |
Hanashima (花島 ) | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Shimonoseki shipyard | 23 October 1944 as Hanashima | 5 December 1945 as Akama Maru | 28 February 1947 | Incomplete until the end of war; transferred to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and renamed Akama Maru (赤間丸 ) in 1945.[19] Sold to Kambara Kisen Company and renamed Tensya Maru No. 3 (第三天社丸 Daisan Tensya Maru ) in 1954, aground and broken in February 1962 at Kitan Strait. |
Photos[]
Footnotes[]
- ↑ JACAR C05034940200, p. 2
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 The Maru Special (1981), p. 38
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 Harima Zōsen (1960), p. 452–453
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 Harima Zōsen (1960), p. 460–461
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 JACAR C05034885500, p. 10
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 JACAR C05034885600, p. 10, p. 15–20
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 JACAR C05034279700, p. 2
- ↑ JACAR C05034885500, p. 11
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 Jirō Kimata (1999), p. 340–341
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Monthly Ships of the World (2003), p. 27
- ↑ JMSA (1979), P.294
- ↑ JACAR C05110830400, p. 2
- ↑ Other proposed names were Yatake (矢岳 ) and Hario (針尾 ). JACAR C05110830400, p. 3
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 JACAR C05110830400, p. 3
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Editorial Committee of the Navy (1981), p. 191
- ↑ Woshima was registered to naval ship list on 12 August 1939. Other informations were not left.
- ↑ JACAR C08030664200, p. 20
- ↑ Shizuo Fukui (1961), p. 197
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Shizuo Fukui (1994), second separate volume p. 927
- ↑ ภูริลาภ สืบเพ็ง. "เรื่อง เรือหลวงรางเกวียน" (in Thai). Royal Thai Navy. http://www.navy.mi.th/newwww/code/calander/showform.php?varlink=521. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
Bibliography[]
- The Maru Special, Japanese Naval Vessels No. 53, Japanese support vessels, "Ushio Shobō". http://www.kojinsha.co.jp/. (Japan), July 1981
- Editorial Committee of the Navy, Navy Vol. 11, "Part of small vessels, auxiliary vessels, miscellaneous service ships and converted merchant ships", Seibunsha K.K. (Japan), August 1981
- 30 year History of Japan Maritime Safety Agency, Policy and Legal Affairs Division-Japan Maritime Safety Agency (JMSA), May 1979
- 50 year History of Harima Zōsen, Harima Zōsen Corporation, November 1960
- 75 year History of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries-Shimonoseki shipyard, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries-Shimonoseki shipyard, 1964
- Monthly Ships of the World No. 613, Special issue Vol. 62 "All ships of Japan Coast Guard 1948–2003", "Kaijinsha". http://www.ships-net.co.jp/., (Japan), July 2003
- Jirō Kimata, Introductory book of the Japanese small vessels, Kōjinsha (Japan), December 1999
- Shizuo Fukui
- Japanese Naval Vessels Survived "Their post-war activities and final disposition", Shuppan Kyodosha (Japan), May 1961
- FUKUI SHIZUO COLLECTION "Japanese Naval Vessels 1869–1945", KK Bestsellers (Japan), December 1994
- "Japan Center for Asian Historical Records (JACAR)". http://www.jacar.go.jp/english/index.html., National Archives of Japan
- Reference code: C05034279700, No. 35, 1935 March 13 Staff for construction of the tug boat and salvage boat
- Reference code: C05034885500, May 1936 Instructions for Production of Electric Equipment for 800-ton Type Steel Salvage Tug Boat (1)
- Reference code: C05034885600, May 1936 Instructions for Production of Electric Equipment for 800-ton Type Steel Salvage Tug Boat (2)
- Reference code: C05034940200, Fleet Activity Command No.6084 May 21, 1936 Newly Constructed Factotum Vessels by Fiscal Year 1936 Provisional Factotum Vessels Production Fee
- Reference code: C05110830400, [Data in English is under preparation] 官房306号 12.1.22 雑役船の公称番号及船種変更の件
- Reference code: C08030664200, Detailed engagement report and wartime log book from October 1, 1943 to February 5, 1944, Special Service Vessel Hakkai-Maru (1)
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