Japanese minelayer Itsukushima
Itsukushima (厳島) was a medium-sized minelayer of the Imperial Japanese Navy, which was in service during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. She was named after Itsukushima, a sacred island in Hiroshima Prefecture of Japan. She was the first warship in the Imperial Japanese Navy with all-diesel engine propulsion.
Itsukushima, circa 1935 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Japan | |
| Name | Itsukushima |
| Ordered | Fiscal 1923 |
| Builder | Uraga Dock Company |
| Laid down | 2 February 1928 |
| Launched | 22 May 1929 |
| Commissioned | 26 December 1929 |
| Stricken | 10 January 1945 |
| Fate | Torpedoed and sunk by HNLMS Zwaardvisch, 7 October 1944 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Minelayer |
| Displacement | 1,970 long tons (2,002 t) (standard) |
| Length | 104 m (341 ft 2 in) (waterline) |
| Beam | 11.83 m (38 ft 10 in) |
| Draught | 3.22 m (10 ft 7 in) |
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| Propulsion | 3 shafts; 3 diesel engines |
| Speed | 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) |
| Range | 5,000 nmi (9,300 km; 5,800 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 221 |
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