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Name This AE...166 - 12/13/2008 11:46:09 PM

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???

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RE: Name This AE...166 - 12/13/2008 11:52:52 PM

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Good one...

It has the lines and the firecontrol of a light cruiser, but the armament of a gunboat.

Is that a 6" gun up front ???

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RE: Name This AE...166 - 12/14/2008 12:27:12 AM

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I think this may be a kaibokan of the Etorofu class, rather than a Shimushu. The Shimushus had a stumpier after mast (is it properly called a mizzen mast, or main?).

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RE: Name This AE...166 - 12/14/2008 2:33:22 AM

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This looks a lot like the escort that somebody built a 1/72 scale model of. It was on the forum a few days ago.

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RE: Name This AE...166 - 12/14/2008 3:19:33 AM

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Is it ML Yaeyama, ( Bld Kure, 1931).
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RE: Name This AE...166 - 12/14/2008 3:38:02 AM

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Wakataka, Hatsutaka class minelayer.

Wakataka was the only one of the class to carry 2 x 3" guns, making the ID a bit easier.

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RE: Name This AE...166 - 12/14/2008 12:11:57 PM

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is that only a 3" gun????

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RE: Name This AE...166 - 12/14/2008 1:29:20 PM

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Ship's a lot smaller than it looks.

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RE: Name This AE...166 - 12/14/2008 3:37:23 PM

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Am I wrong in thinking I can see two main battery mounts trained aft? I also note fairly low freeboard, a bandstand abreast of the bridge, on which I suspect I can see a sheeted 25mm AA mount, and a prominent rangefinder atop the bridge. Given these features, my money is still on this being a kaibokan, in which case the main armament would be 4.7 inch 45-cal.

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RE: Name This AE...166 - 12/14/2008 4:11:33 PM

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I'd say it's an Etorofu.

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RE: Name This AE...166 - 12/14/2008 9:37:36 PM

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She�s defiantly IJN, and I agree that the forward mount is big enough to be a 6� gun.. could she be some sorta training ship or perhaps a Minelayer?

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RE: Name This AE...166 - 12/14/2008 9:54:42 PM

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It is the Etorofu-class escort ship Matsuwa.

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RE: Name This AE...166 - 12/14/2008 9:56:57 PM

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Matsuwa, it is

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RE: Name This AE...166 - 12/14/2008 10:40:35 PM

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good call Q-Ball

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RE: Name This AE...166 - 12/15/2008 1:16:43 AM

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It was easy. This ship's mizzen is tripod structure slightly angled to starboard; this is a unique characteristic of ships built by the Mitsui yard. Only one Etorofu was built by Mitsui; the Matsuwa. The porthole pattern amidships is also unique to the Matsuwa.

LATER EDIT: No one asked, but actually, I just found the same picture Brady did.

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