Shipbucket

The Tachibana class were a Japanese equivalent to the American Escort Destroyers, or RN Hunt class. They were the second class of escorts, the first being the Momi class. The Tachibana had simpler hull form, with almost no curves, so that they could be built quickly and cheaply.
Armament was 3 5"/40 DP gun (one twin, aft, and one single foreward) and 24 25mm AA guns, and 4 24" TT, and of course depth-charges.



This ship, the Nashi, was sunk by USN aircraft, from TF38, and was raised post-war and refitted as radar trials ship DE-261 Wakabe (forthcoming)

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After the war the JMSDF raised the partly sunken Nashi, and in 1956 comissioned the ship as Wakaba. In 1958 she was taken in hand and modified as aradar trials ship, getting the SPS-8B height finder and SPS-12 along with SPS-5. At the same time the ship got armament, a twin 3"/50 aft with Mk.34 GFC, and Hedgehog Mk.10 forward, and also depth-charges.




Tell me what you think.

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Very Interesting; a much neglected area of warships: makes change from the usual Battleships. Not a criticism, but those main gun shields look huge.

there was a red line above the waterline mark?

otherwise I cant find flaw in it, great work!

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Shipbucket mainsite, aka "The Archive"
New AU project "Aravala"

+/- not really

As the original Japanese drawing I used had a red line above the waterline-mark, I also added it. If you tell me it's wrong I'll update the drawings.
As for the gun shields, these guns were uniformly used by all classes of Japanese warships from transports to the huge Yamato. Some had shields, some had real turrets. The size I drew was like on the afore mentioned drawing.

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