Hashidate in Osaka Bay, June 1940
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History | |
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Japan | |
Name | Hashidate |
Namesake | Japanese cruiser Hashidate |
Ordered | 1937 |
Builder | Osaka Iron Works |
Laid down | February 20, 1939 |
Launched | December 23, 1939 |
Completed | June 30, 1940 |
Stricken | July 10, 1944 |
Fate | Sunk by USS Picuda, May 22, 1944 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Gunboat |
Displacement | 993 long tons (1,009 t) |
Length | 78.5 m (258 ft) |
Beam | 9.7 m (31 ft 10 in) |
Draught | 2.45 m (8 ft 0 in) |
Propulsion | >4,600 hp (3,400 kW) geared turbine |
Speed | 19.5 knots (22.4 mph; 36.1 km/h) |
Range | 2,500 nmi / 14 kn |
Complement | 158 |
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Hashidate (橋立, Standing Bridge) was the lead vessel in the Hashidate-class gunboats in the Imperial Japanese Navy, that operated in China during the 1940s.