Japanese destroyer Tade
The Japanese destroyer Tade was one of 21 s built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the late 1910s. She was converted into a patrol boat in 1940 and was sunk south of Yonaguni at by the United States Navy submarine on 23 April 1943.
Design and description
The Momi class was designed with higher speed and better seakeeping than the preceding second-class destroyers. The ships had an overall length of and were between perpendiculars. They had a beam of, and a mean draft of. The Momi-class ships displaced at standard load and at deep load. Tade was powered by two Parsons geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft using steam provided by three Kampon water-tube boilers. The turbines were designed to produce to give the ships a speed of. The ships carried a maximum of of fuel oil which gave them a range of at. Their crew consisted of 110 officers and crewmen.The main armament of the Momi-class ships consisted of three Type 3 guns in single mounts; one gun forward of the well deck, one between the two funnels, and the last gun atop the aft superstructure. The guns were numbered '1' to '3' from front to rear. The ships carried two above-water twin sets of torpedo tubes; one mount was in the well deck between the forward superstructure and the bow gun and the other between the aft funnel and aft superstructure.
In 1940, Tade was converted into a patrol boat. Her torpedo tubes, minesweeping gear, and aft 12 cm gun were removed in exchange for two triple mounts for license-built Type 96 light AA guns and 60 depth charges. In addition one boiler was removed, which reduced her speed to from. These changes made her top heavy and ballast had to be added which increased her displacement to.