Japanese destroyer Take (1944)
Service
- as Take? — 5 October 19452,193 days of the war
- Name
- Take
- Pennant / hull number
- 1944
- Namesake
- Bamboo
- Builder
- Yokosuka Naval Arsenal
- Laid down
- 25 October 1943
- Launched
- 28 March 1944
- Struck
- 5 October 1945
- Fate
- Turned over to Great Britain, 16 July 1947
Scrapped, 1948 (1947) - Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,262 long tons (1,282 t)
- Length
- 100 m (328.1 ft) OA
- Beam
- 9.35 m (30.7 ft)
- Draught
- 3.3 m (10.8 ft)
- Speed
- 27.8 knots (51.5 km/h, 32 mph)
- Range
- 4,680 nmi (8,667 km)
- Complement
- 210
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
Take was a Matsu-class destroyer escort destroyer, operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy. She carried the pennant number 1944. She was named for Bamboo. Her keel was laid at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal on 25 October 1943. She was launched on 28 March 1944.
Her class ran to 18 ships. The class followed the Ōtori-class torpedo boat.
Displacement was 1,262 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, and she carried a complement of 210.
Her main battery was one 127 mm (5 in) guns. 19,000 shp drove two shafts.
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 16 July 1947.
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, 8 × single 25 mm AA guns
- 1 × quadruple 610 mm torpedo tubes
- 2 × rails, 2 × throwers for 36 depth charges
Sister ships
- Japanese destroyer Hinoki (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Kaede (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Kashi (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Kaya (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Keyaki (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Kiri (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Kuwa (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Maki (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Matsu (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Momi (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Momo (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Nara (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Sakura (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Sugi (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Tsubaki (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Ume (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Yanagi (1944)
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese destroyer Take (1944) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Yokosuka Naval Arsenal. — Fukui Shizuo "Fukui Shizuo collection, Japanese Naval Vessels 1869-1945", Bestsellers(Japan),1994 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons