Japanese destroyer Tade

History

Tade, 1933




Empire of Japan
Name	Tade
Builder	Fujinagata Shipyards, Osaka, Japan
Laid down	20 December 1920
Launched	15 March 1922
Completed	31 July 1922
Renamed	As Patrol Boat No. 39, 1 April 1940
Reclassified	As patrol boat, 1 April 1940
Stricken	1 July 1943
Fate	Torpedoed and sunk, 23 April 1943


General characteristics as built
Type	Momi-class destroyer
Displacement	864 t (850 long tons) (normal) 1,036 t (1,020 long tons) (deep load)
Length	83.8 m (275 ft) (pp) 85.3 m (280 ft) (o/a)
Beam	7.9 m (26 ft)
Draft	2.4 m (8 ft)
Installed power	21,500 shp (16,000 kW) 3 × Kampon water-tube boilers
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 × Brown-Curtis steam turbines
Speed	36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range	3,000 nmi (5,600 km; 3,500 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	110
Armament	3 × single 12 cm (4.7 in) Type 3 guns 2 × twin 53.3 cm (21.0 in) torpedo tubes

The Japanese destroyer Tade (蓼) was one of 21 Momi-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the late 1910s. She was converted into a patrol boat in 1940 and was sunk south of Yonaguni at 23°27′N 122°27′E / 23.45°N 122.45°E / 23.45; 122.45 (Patrol Boat No. 39) by the United States Navy submarine USS Seawolf on 23 April 1943.