Japanese minelayer Wakataka
demilitarized Wakataka in 1947
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 Japan
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| Name: | Wakataka |
| Ordered: | fiscal 1939 |
| Builder: | Harima Shipyard |
| Laid down: | November 15, 1940 |
| Launched: | July 12, 1941 |
| Commissioned: | November 30, 1941 |
| Struck: | July 1, 1946 |
| Fate: | Prize of war to UK |
 Malaysia
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| Name: | HMMS Laburnum |
| Acquired: | September 1949 |
| Struck: | December 31, 1965 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Singapore |
 Singapore
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| Name: | RSS Singapura |
| Acquired: | January 1, 1966 |
| Commissioned: | May 5, 1967 |
| Struck: | mid-1968 |
| Fate: | Scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | minelayer |
| Displacement: | 1,608 long tons (1,634 t) standard, 1860 tons normal |
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| Beam: | 11.3 m (37 ft 1 in) |
| Draught: | 4 m (13 ft 1 in) |
| Propulsion: | 2-shaft geared turbine engine, 3 boilers, 6,000 hp (4,500 kW) |
| Speed: | 20 knots (23 mph; 37 km/h) |
| Range: | 3,000 nmi (5,600 km) at 14 knots (19 km/h) |
| Complement: | 202 |
| Electronic warfare & decoys: |
Type 22 and 13 radars and Type 93 and/or Type 3 sonar |
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Wakataka (若鷹 Young Hawk?) was the third and final vessel in the Hatsutaka-class of medium-sized minelayers of the Imperial Japanese Navy, which was in service during World War II. She was designed as an improved version of Shirataka netlayer. However, during the Pacific War, due to the critical shortage of patrol ships for convoy escort duties, she was fitted with depth charge racks and her minelaying rails were removed.
Under the Maru-4 Supplemental Armaments Budget of 1939, the Imperial Japanese Navy authorized an additional vessel in the Hatsutaka-series of minelayers, primarily for coastal duties in the China theater of operations in the Second Sino-Japanese War. Wakataka differed from her sister ships in that her main armament was changed to twin Type 3 80 mm AA Guns.
Wakataka was launched by the Harima Shipyard near Kobe on July 12, 1941, and was commissioned into service on November 30, 1941.
After commissioning, Wakataka was assigned to the Sasebo Naval District, but was soon reassigned to the Second Base Force of the IJN 3rd Fleet, based at Takao in Taiwan.
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