Japanese destroyer Shii
Tachibana sub-class of the Matsu-class destroyer escort destroyer
Service
- as Shii? — 5 October 19452,193 days of the war
- as Shii7 July 1947 — 18 November 1959
- Name
- Shii
- Namesake
- Castanopsis
- Builder
- Maizuru Naval Arsenal
- Ordered
- 1944
- Laid down
- 18 September 1944
- Launched
- 13 January 1945
- Commissioned
- 7 July 1947
- Struck
- 5 October 1945
- Fate
- Scrapped after 8 August 1960 (1960)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,288 long tons (1,309 t)
- Length
- 100 m (328.1 ft) OA
- Beam
- 9.35 m (30.7 ft)
- Draught
- 3.37 m (11.1 ft)
- Speed
- 27.8 knots (51.5 km/h, 32 mph)
- Range
- 4,680 nmi (8,667 km)
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
Shii was a Tachibana sub-class of the Matsu-class destroyer escort destroyer, operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy. The ship was named after Castanopsis. Maizuru Naval Arsenal laid her keel on 18 September 1944. Launched on 13 January 1945, she entered service on 7 July 1947.
She displaced 1,288 long tons. She measured 100 m (328 ft) long with a beam of 9.3 m (31 ft). Her designed speed was 27.8 knots.
Her main battery was one 127 mm (5 in) guns. 19,000 shp drove two shafts.
She served with the Imperial Japanese Navy as Shii until 5 October 1945. She then passed to the Soviet Navy, serving as Shii from 7 July 1947. She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 5 October 1945.
She was broken up for scrap on 8 August 1960.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 shafts, 2 × geared steam turbines
- Power
- 2 × water-tube boilers; 19000 shp
- Armament
- 1 × twin, 1 × single 127 mm DP guns
- 4 × triple, 13 × single 25 mm AA guns
- 1 × quadruple 610 mm torpedo tubes
- 2 × rails, 2 × throwers for 60 depth charges
Sister ships
- Japanese destroyer Enoki (1945)
- Japanese destroyer Hagi (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Hatsuume
- Japanese destroyer Hatsuzakura
- Japanese destroyer Kaba (1945)
- Japanese destroyer Kaki (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Kusunoki (1945)
- Japanese destroyer Nire (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Odake
- Japanese destroyer Sumire (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Tsuta (1944)
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese destroyer Shii on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: maybe Maizuru Naval Arsenal. — Fukui Shizuo "Fukui Shizuo collection, Japanese Naval Vessels 1869-1945", Bestsellers(Japan),1994 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons