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IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY (JAPAN)

COASTAL FORCES

"T31" type torpedo boats (208-GO) (1943 - 1944)

208-go 1943

Names

208号魚雷艇 - 234号魚雷艇 [208-go - 234-go]

Builders

Yokosuka K K, Mitsubishi, Yokohama: 208-234-go

Commissioned

1943 - 1944: 208-234-go

Losses

at least 223-go (2.11.1946 after surrendering), 233-go (1944/45)

Transfers

none

Discarding

after 8.1945: some from 208 - 222-go, 224 - 232-go, 234-go

 

Displacement standard, t

20

Displacement full, t

24

Length, m

18.0

Breadth, m

4.30

Draught, m

0.65 - 0.74

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Hispano-Suiza petrol engines

Power, h. p.

800

Max speed, kts

20

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)

340(18.5)

Armament

1 x 1 - 13.2/76 or 1 x 1 - 25/60 96-shiki, 2 - 450 TT

Complement

7

Project history: Development of B type (Otsu-Gata) T1. They differed each other by as a hull material (steel on �23, �31, �32, �33 and �37 series or wooden on �25, �34, �35, �36, �38 and �39 series), and type and number of engines. Shortage of the latter has compelled to fit 238 boats with low-power (450hp) petrol engines. Since �31 series boats did not had cruising engines.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events

Ivan Gogin, 2008-14