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HMS Thracian in 1941
History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Thracian (D86)
Ordered:	1915
Builder:	Hawthorn Leslie and Company Sheerness Dockyard
Laid down:	17 January 1918
Launched:	5 March 1920
Commissioned:	1 April 1922
Fate:	Grounded on 25 December 1941 at Aberdeen, Hong Kong
General characteristics HMS Thracian
Class and type:	S-class destroyer
Displacement:	1,075 long tons (1,092 t)
Length:	276 ft (84 m) o/a
Beam:	26 ft 8 in (8.13 m)
Draught:	9 ft (2.7 m)
Installed power:	27,000 shp (20,000 kW) 3 × Yarrow boilers
Propulsion:	2 Shafts; 2 steam turbines
Speed:	36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range:	2,750 nmi (5,090 km; 3,160 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement:	90
Armament:	3 × QF 4-inch (102 mm) Mark IV guns 1 × QF 2-pounder (40 mm) "pom-pom" anti-aircraft gun 2 × twin 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes 2 × single 18-inch (45 cm) torpedo tubes
Japan
Name:	Patrol Boat No. 101 (第101号哨戒艇, Dai-101-Gō Shōkaitei)
Builder:	Navy 2nd Construction Department at Hong Kong
Acquired:	1942
Commissioned:	1 October 1942
Decommissioned:	1945
In service:	1942-1945
Renamed:	15 March 1944 Special Training Ship No. 1 (特第1号練習艇, Toku Dai-1-Gō Renshūtei)
Reclassified:	Training ship, 15 March 1944
Reinstated:	Returned to Royal Navy in October 1945
Fate:	Scrapped, February 1946
General characteristics Patrol Boat No.101
Class and type:	Patrol boat/Training ship
Displacement:	1,150 long tons (1,168 t) standard
Length:	80.79 m (265 ft 1 in) Lpp
Beam:	8.17 m (26 ft 10 in)
Draft:	3.01 m (9 ft 11 in)
Propulsion:	2 × Brown-Curtis turbines, 3 × Yarrow water tube boilers, 2 shafts, 10,000 shp
Speed:	25 knots (29 mph; 46 km/h)
Complement:	December 1943 119 March 1944 113
Sensors and processing systems:	Mk. 23 gunfire control radar (1944)
Armament:	25 November 1942 3 × QF 4-inch (101.6 mm) Mark IV guns 15 March 1944 4 × Type 92 610 mm TTs 2 × 6th Year Type 533 mm TTs 2 × Type 93 13 mm AA guns 1 × Type 94 depth charge thrower 10 × Type 95 depth charges

HMS Thracian was an S-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during the First World War.

Description

The S-class destroyers were improved versions of the preceding Modified R class. They displaced 1,075 long tons (1,092 t).^[1] The ships had an overall length of 276 feet (84.1 m), a beam of 26 feet 8 inches (8.1 m) and a draught of 9 feet (2.7 m). They were powered by two Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft, using steam provided by two Yarrow boilers. The turbines developed a total of 27,000 shaft horsepower (20,000 kW) and gave a maximum speed of 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph). The ships carried a maximum of 301 long tons (306 t) of fuel oil that gave them a range of 2,750 nautical miles (5,090 km; 3,160 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph). The ships' complement was 90 officers and ratings.^[2]

Thracian was armed with three QF 4-inch (102 mm) Mark IV guns in single mounts and a single 2-pounder (40 mm) "pom-pom" anti-aircraft gun. The ship was fitted with two twin mounts for 21-inch (533 mm) torpedoes.^[1] Two additional single mounts were positioned abreast the bridge at the break of the forecastle for 18-inch (45 cm) torpedoes. All torpedo tubes were above water and traversed to fire.^[3]

Construction and career

HMS Thracian was laid down on 17 January 1918 at Hawthorn Leslie and Company, launched on 5 March 1920 and completed at Sheerness Dockyard on 1 April 1922. The ship was run aground and scuttled at Hong Kong on 25 December 1941, later captured by the Imperial Japanese Army.

Imperial Japanese Navy service (1942 – 1945)

IJN Patrol Boat No. 101 in 1942

IJN Special Training Ship No. 1 in 1945

• 1 October 1942: Registered to naval ship list in the Imperial Japanese Navy, and classification to the Special service ship (Patrol boat). Renamed

Patrol Boat No. 101.

• 25 November 1942: Repairs were completed by the Navy 2nd Construction Department, and assigned to the Yokosuka Naval District.


• (after): She spent her time on convoy escort operations in the Yokosuka Area.


• 15 August 1943: Assigned to the Torpedo warfare school (Yokosuka).


• 15 March 1944: Classification to the miscellaneous ship (Training ship), and renamed Special Training Ship No. 1. She was used for a test bed for new weapons.


• 15 August 1945: Survived war at Yokosuka.


• October 1945: Returned to Royal Navy.


• February 1946: Scrapped at Hong Kong.

Notes

Bibliography

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  Friedman, Norman (2009). British Destroyers: From Earliest Days to the Second World War. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-049-9.
  


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  Gardiner, Robert & Gray, Randal (1985). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-245-5.
  


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Further reading

• Rekishi Gunzō, History of Pacific War Vol.45, Truth histories of the Imperial Japanese Naval Vessels, Gakken (Japanese publisher), May 2004,
  ISBN 4-05-603412-5.


• 
  Ships of the World, special issue Vol.45, Escort Vessels of the Imperial Japanese Navy, "Kaijinsha"., (Japan), 1996.


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  The Maru Special, Japanese Naval Vessels No.49, "Japanese submarine chasers and patrol boats", "Ushio Shobō". (Japan), 1981.