| Japanese escort ship CD-196 | |
|---|---|
| Career (Imperial Japanese Navy) |  |
| Name: | CD-196 |
| Builder: | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Nagasaki |
| Laid down: | 31 December 1944 |
| Launched: | 26 February 1945 |
| Sponsored by: | Imperial Japanese Navy |
| Completed: | 31 March 1945 |
| Commissioned: | 31 March 1945 |
| Out of service: | surrender of Japan, 2 September 1945 |
| Struck: | 30 November 1945 |
| Fate: | ceded to the Soviet Union, 28 August 1947 |
| Career (Soviet Navy) |  |
| Name: | EK-33 |
| Acquired: | 28 August 1947 |
| Renamed: | Turgay (1954) |
| Fate: | scrapped, 11 March 1958 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Type: | Type D escort ship |
| Displacement: | 740 long tons (752 t) standard |
| Length: | 69.5 m (228 ft) |
| Beam: | 8.6 m (28 ft 3 in) |
| Draught: | 3.05 m (10 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 1 shaft, geared turbine engines, 2,500 hp (1,864 kW) |
| Speed: | 17.5 knots (20.1 mph; 32.4 km/h) |
| Range: | 4,500 nmi (8,300 km) at 16 kn (18 mph; 30 km/h) |
| Complement: | 160 |
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CD-196 or No. 196 was a Type D escort ship of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.
History[]
She was laid down on 31 December 1944 at the Nagasaki shipyard of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries for the benefit of the Imperial Japanese Navy and launched on 26 February 1945.[2][3] On 31 March 1945, she was completed and commissioned.[2][3] On 22 June 1945, she was damaged by two torpedoes fired by the USS Piranha at 39°31′N 142°39′E / 39.517°N 142.65°ECoordinates: 39°31′N 142°39′E / 39.517°N 142.65°E which destroyed her rudder and killed two crewman.[2] On 23 June 1945, she arrived at Yamada Bay where she underwent repair.[2] On 15 August 1945, Japan announced their unconditional surrender and she was surrendered to Allied forces.[2] On 30 November 1945, she was struck from the Navy List.[2][3] On 1 December 1945, she was assigned to the Allied Repatriation Service and completed a number of repatriation trips before being ceded to Soviet Union as a war reparation on 28 August 1947.[2] She served as patrol boat EK-33 (ЭК-33) in the Soviet Pacific Ocean Fleet.[4] In 1954, she was re-designated as a dispatch ship and renamed Turgay (Тургай).[4] On 11 March 1958, she was decommissioned and scrapped soon after.[4]
References[]
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922-1946. 1980. pp. 206–207. ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Hackett, Bob; Cundall, Peter; Kingsepp, Sander; Casse, Gilbert; Higuchi, Tatsuhiro (2012). "Kakyakusen: IJN Escort CD-196: Tabular Record of Movement". combinedfleet.com. http://www.combinedfleet.com/CD-196_t.htm. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Stille, Mark (July 18, 2017). Imperial Japanese Navy Antisubmarine Escorts 1941-45. Bloomsbury Press. pp. 41–45. ISBN 9781472818164. https://books.google.com/books?id=TGErDwAAQBAJ&q=cd-196#v=snippet&q=cd-196&f=false.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "EK-32 guard ships (1944 - 1946 / 1947)". http://www.navypedia.org/ships/russia/ru_es_ek32.htm. Retrieved April 10, 2020.
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