Talk:List of coastal defense ships by upgraded maximum stats/@comment-26403391-20170510191425/@comment-26334968-20170513084417

Actually they are much closer to frigates (not patrol frigates) than destroyer escorts due to their armament and mission. Displacement wise they are surely lighter han the other nations such ships, but the Japanese used Diesel engines and had shorter range while the British used Vertical Triple Expansion engines (River, Loch and Bay classe) and could travel further.

Though indeed this ship types classifications are quite blurred as the British named them frigates and sloops while the US named them Destroyer Escorts (DE) and the soviets Guard Ships (Kola, Riga, Petya)