Kits collection

100t Plane Transport Ship
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150t Tugboat
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150t Type Minelayer
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2nd-Class Landing Ship
Description:	The No.103-class landing ships (第百三号型輸送艦, Dai 103 Gō-gata Yusōkan) were a class of amphibious assault ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and Imperial Japanese Army (IJA), serving during and after World War II. The No.103 were powered by a steam turbine engine. The IJN called them 2nd class transporter (二等輸送艦, 2-Tō Yusōkan?). The No.103 class included the IJA's SB craft (SB艇, SB-tei?) variant. T-103 FY1943 Osaka SB ? 1944 1944. 4.30 LS2 1944. 7. 4 sunk (air attack, off Chichijima) [27.05N, 142.09E] 1944. 9.15 disc

2nd-Class Landing Ship
Description:	The No.103-class landing ships (第百三号型輸送艦, Dai 103 Gō-gata Yusōkan) were a class of amphibious assault ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and Imperial Japanese Army (IJA), serving during and after World War II. The No.103 were powered by a steam turbine engine. The IJN called them 2nd class transporter (二等輸送艦, 2-Tō Yusōkan?). The No.103 class included the IJA's SB craft (SB艇, SB-tei?) variant. T-103 FY1943 Osaka SB ? 1944 1944. 4.30 LS2 1944. 7. 4 sunk (air attack, off Chichijima) [27.05N, 142.09E] 1944. 9.15 disc

300t Plane Rescue Ship
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400t Large Harbor Tug
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Abukuma

Description: Abukuma (阿武隈) was the sixth and last of the vessels completed for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the Nagara class of light cruisers, and like other vessels of her class, she was intended for use as the flagship of a destroyer flotilla. She was named after the Abukuma River in the Tōhoku region of Japan. She saw action during World War II in the Attack on Pearl Harbor and in the Pacific, before being disabled in the Battle of Surigao Strait in October 1944, then bombed and sunk by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) off the coast of the Philippines.

Builder: Uraga Dock Company
Laid down: 8 December 1921
Launched: 16 March 1923
Commissioned: 26 May 1925
Struck: 20 December 1944
Fate: sunk 26 October 1944 bombed by USAAF B-24 Liberator bombers off Negros Island, Mindanao Sea 09°20′N 122°32′E

On 26 October, Abukuma was spotted and attacked repeatedly by B-24 Liberator bombers of the 5th Group, 13th Air Force armed with 500 lb (227 kg) bombs. At 10:06 AM she took a direct hit near the No. 3 140 mm turret; at 10:20 two more hits by B-24 bombers of the 33rd Squadron 22nd Group, 5th Air Force were scored further aft that started fires. The fire spread to the engine rooms and aft torpedo rooms. Power was lost and the ship's speed declined. At 10:37 AM, four Type 93 Long Lance torpedoes in the aft torpedo room exploded with devastating effect. Between 11:00 and 11:30 AM off Negros Island, the crew abandoned ship. At 11:42 AM, she sank by the stern at 09°20′N 122°32′E with 250 of her crewmen. Ushio rescued her captain and 283 crewmen.

Abukuma was removed from the navy list on 20 December 1944.

Abukuma
Description:	Abukuma (阿武隈) was the sixth and last of the vessels completed for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the Nagara class of light cruisers, and like other vessels of her class, she was intended for use as the flagship of a destroyer flotilla. She was named after the Abukuma River in the Tōhoku region of Japan. She saw action during World War II in the Attack on Pearl Harbor and in the Pacific, before being disabled in the Battle of Surigao Strait in October 1944, then bombed and sunk by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) off the coast of the Philippines. Builder: Uraga Dock Company Laid down: 8 December 1921 Launched: 16 March 1923 Commissioned: 26 May 1925 Struck: 20 December 1944 Fate: sunk 26 October 1944 bombed by USAAF B-24 Liberator bombers off Negros Island, Mindanao Sea 09°20′N 122°32′E On 26 October, Abukuma was spotted and attacked repeatedly by B-24 Liberator bombers of the 5th Group, 13th Air Force armed with 500 lb (227 kg) bombs. At 10:06 AM she took a direct hit near the No. 3 140 mm turret; at 10:20 two more hits by B-24 bombers of the 33rd Squadron 22nd Group, 5th Air Force were scored further aft that started fires. The fire spread to the engine rooms and aft torpedo rooms. Power was lost and the ship's speed declined. At 10:37 AM, four Type 93 Long Lance torpedoes in the aft torpedo room exploded with devastating effect. Between 11:00 and 11:30 AM off Negros Island, the crew abandoned ship. At 11:42 AM, she sank by the stern at 09°20′N 122°32′E with 250 of her crewmen. Ushio rescued her captain and 283 crewmen. Abukuma was removed from the navy list on 20 December 1944.

Agano
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Agano
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Agano/Noshiro
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Aikoku Maru 1944

Description: Aikoku Maru (愛国丸) was an armed merchant cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II. The ship entered service in 1940, the ship was later converted to an ammunition ship.

Aikoku Maru was laid down at the Mitsui Tamano shipyards in Okayama Prefecture on 29 December 1938. She was designed to be a combined passenger liner / cargo vessel for the Osaka Shosen Lines's regularly scheduled services to South America. Provisionally named Kyoto, the design for the new vessel was to have boasted of luxurious suite rooms. The vessel was built with large government subsidies provided from 1936 to encourage the production of large, high-speed transports and tankers, which could be quickly converted to military use in times of conflict. The vessel was launched on 25 April 1940, and was named Aikoku Maru at that time.

From 16 December 1942, Aikoku Maru was reassigned back to the IJN 8th Fleet, primarily as a military transport to support New Guinea operations, and her aircraft were disembarked. While unloading cargo at Madang on 18 December, she was attacked in an air raid by B-17 Flying Fortress bombers of the 43rd Bomb Group of the USAAF Fifth Air Force, but was not hit. She returned to Kure on 29 December 1942.

On the first day, 17 February 1944, Aikoku Maru was bombed by aircraft from the carrier USS Intrepid, with the first bomb exploding in the officer's wardroom, causing a fire. She was hit three more times in this attack, and was hit again in the second attack by a torpedo which set off the ammunition in her No.1 hold, shearing off the bow. Aikoku Maru sank in two minutes at 07°22′N 151°56′E, with most of the 945 crew and passengers. The aircraft which dropped the torpedo on Aikoku Maru- TBM Avenger #25270 and its three men crew of VT-6- were also destroyed in the explosion of the ship.

Aikoku Maru was removed from the navy list on 30 March 1944.

Aikoku Maru 1944
Description:	Aikoku Maru (愛国丸) was an armed merchant cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II. The ship entered service in 1940, the ship was later converted to an ammunition ship. Aikoku Maru was laid down at the Mitsui Tamano shipyards in Okayama Prefecture on 29 December 1938. She was designed to be a combined passenger liner / cargo vessel for the Osaka Shosen Lines's regularly scheduled services to South America. Provisionally named Kyoto, the design for the new vessel was to have boasted of luxurious suite rooms. The vessel was built with large government subsidies provided from 1936 to encourage the production of large, high-speed transports and tankers, which could be quickly converted to military use in times of conflict. The vessel was launched on 25 April 1940, and was named Aikoku Maru at that time. From 16 December 1942, Aikoku Maru was reassigned back to the IJN 8th Fleet, primarily as a military transport to support New Guinea operations, and her aircraft were disembarked. While unloading cargo at Madang on 18 December, she was attacked in an air raid by B-17 Flying Fortress bombers of the 43rd Bomb Group of the USAAF Fifth Air Force, but was not hit. She returned to Kure on 29 December 1942. On the first day, 17 February 1944, Aikoku Maru was bombed by aircraft from the carrier USS Intrepid, with the first bomb exploding in the officer's wardroom, causing a fire. She was hit three more times in this attack, and was hit again in the second attack by a torpedo which set off the ammunition in her No.1 hold, shearing off the bow. Aikoku Maru sank in two minutes at 07°22′N 151°56′E, with most of the 945 crew and passengers. The aircraft which dropped the torpedo on Aikoku Maru- TBM Avenger #25270 and its three men crew of VT-6- were also destroyed in the explosion of the ship. Aikoku Maru was removed from the navy list on 30 March 1944.

Aircraft Carrier (Battle of the Philippine Sea) Navalised Aircraft Set
Description:	This set contains parts for three complete 1/700-sale aircraft: a Mitsubishi A6M2 (Zeke) model 21, an Aichi D3A1 (Val) type 11, and a Nakajima B5N (Kate) type 97.

Aircraft Set Japanese Carrier
Description:	This set contains parts for three complete 1/700-sale aircraft: a Mitsubishi A6M2 (Zeke) model 21, an Aichi D3A1 (Val) type 11, and a Nakajima B5N (Kate) type 97.

Aiyo Maru
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Akagi
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Akagi Aircraft Set
Description:	A set of 1/700 scale aircraft kits for use with early-war WW2 Japanese aircraft carriers or in dioramas. Includes 4 each A6M2 Zero 21, D3A1 Val 11 and B5N2 Kate.

Akagi Three Flight Deck
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Akashi

Description: Akashi was a Japanese repair ship, serving during World War II. She was the only specifically designed repair ship operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy. The navy based her design on the US Navy's USS Medusa. During the war Akashi operated out of the Japanese base in the Truk atoll where she repaired various types of battle-damaged Japanese warships, including the Shōkaku in October 1942 and the Yamato in December 1943. In February 1944 the Americans made a raid on Truk (Operation Hailstone), sinking and damaging many ships. Akashi was damaged in these attacks and escaped to the Japanese atoll of Palau. On 30 March 1944, while anchored off Urukthapel in the Palau Islands, Akashi was hit numerous times by bombs and rockets from American aircraft from Task Group 58, during Operation Desecrate One. She was sunk in shallow water with her bridge still remaining above the water.

Akashi
Description:	Akashi was a Japanese repair ship, serving during World War II. She was the only specifically designed repair ship operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy. The navy based her design on the US Navy's USS Medusa. During the war Akashi operated out of the Japanese base in the Truk atoll where she repaired various types of battle-damaged Japanese warships, including the Shōkaku in October 1942 and the Yamato in December 1943. In February 1944 the Americans made a raid on Truk (Operation Hailstone), sinking and damaging many ships. Akashi was damaged in these attacks and escaped to the Japanese atoll of Palau. On 30 March 1944, while anchored off Urukthapel in the Palau Islands, Akashi was hit numerous times by bombs and rockets from American aircraft from Task Group 58, during Operation Desecrate One. She was sunk in shallow water with her bridge still remaining above the water.

Akatsuki

Description: Akatsuki (暁 Dawn) was the twenty-first Fubuki-class destroyer, or the lead ship of the Akatsuki class (if that sub-class is regarded as a separate class), built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the inter-war period.

Builder: Sasebo Naval Arsenal
Laid down: 17 February 1930
Launched: 7 May 1932
Commissioned: 30 November 1932
Struck: 15 December 1942
Fate: Sunk in action off Guadalcanal, 13 November 1942

Akatsuki returned to "Ironbottom Sound" as part of a powerful bombardment force built around the battleships Hiei and Kirishima. On the night of 12–13 November 1942, in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, this unit encountered a task force of U.S. Navy destroyers and cruisers. Operating on the right flank of the Japanese battleships, Akatsuki is often credited with illuminating and then torpedoing USS Atlanta: however, her Chief Torpedo Officer, Michiharu Shinya – one of her few survivors - later stated unequivocally that Akatsuki was overwhelmed by gunfire before being able to launch any torpedoes that night. Soon after illuminating Atlanta, she was heavily hit by American gunfire and sank early in the action near Savo Island at position 09°17′S 159°56′E, with the loss of all but eighteen crewmen (out of a total complement of 197), which were later captured by U.S. forces. These crewmen were later imprisoned at the Featherston prisoner of war camp in New Zealand.

On 15 December 1942, Akatsuki was removed from the navy list.

Akatsuki
Description:	Akatsuki (暁 Dawn) was the twenty-first Fubuki-class destroyer, or the lead ship of the Akatsuki class (if that sub-class is regarded as a separate class), built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the inter-war period. Builder: Sasebo Naval Arsenal Laid down: 17 February 1930 Launched: 7 May 1932 Commissioned: 30 November 1932 Struck: 15 December 1942 Fate: Sunk in action off Guadalcanal, 13 November 1942 Akatsuki returned to "Ironbottom Sound" as part of a powerful bombardment force built around the battleships Hiei and Kirishima. On the night of 12–13 November 1942, in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, this unit encountered a task force of U.S. Navy destroyers and cruisers. Operating on the right flank of the Japanese battleships, Akatsuki is often credited with illuminating and then torpedoing USS Atlanta: however, her Chief Torpedo Officer, Michiharu Shinya – one of her few survivors - later stated unequivocally that Akatsuki was overwhelmed by gunfire before being able to launch any torpedoes that night. Soon after illuminating Atlanta, she was heavily hit by American gunfire and sank early in the action near Savo Island at position 09°17′S 159°56′E, with the loss of all but eighteen crewmen (out of a total complement of 197), which were later captured by U.S. forces. These crewmen were later imprisoned at the Featherston prisoner of war camp in New Zealand. On 15 December 1942, Akatsuki was removed from the navy list.

Akebono
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Akebono 1942

Description: Type Destroyer
Classe Fubuki
Histoire
A servi dans Naval Ensign of Japan.svg Marine impériale japonaise
Commanditaire Drapeau du Japon Japon
Chantier naval Fujinagata, Osaka
Commandé 1923
Quille posée 25 novembre 1929
Lancement 7 novembre 1930
Commission 31 juillet 1931
Statut Coulé le 14 novembre 1944

L'Akebono (曙) était un destroyer de classe Fubuki en service dans la Marine impériale japonaise pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
À sa mise en service, il rejoint la 7e division de destroyers de la 2e flotte. Durant la deuxième guerre sino-japonaise, il couvre le débarquement des forces japonaises lors de la bataille de Shanghai et à Hangzhou. À partir de 1940, il patrouille et couvre les débarquements des forces japonaises dans le sud de la Chine tout en participant à l'invasion de l'Indochine française.

Au moment de l'attaque de Pearl Harbor, l'Akebono est affecté à la 7e division de la 1re flotte aérienne. Maintenu en réserve dans les eaux territoriales japonaises en raison d'une hélice endommagé, il ne participera pas à l'attaque. Après des réparations achevées à la mi-janvier 1942, l'Akebono rejoint l'escorte des porte-avions Hiryū et Sōryū lors des frappes aériennes pendant la bataille d'Ambon, puis fait partie de l'escorte des croiseurs Nachi et Haguro lors de l'opération J. Le 1er mars, durant la bataille de la mer de Java, l'Akebono participe au naufrage du croiseur britannique HMS Exeter, du destroyer HMS Encounter, ainsi que du destroyer américain USS Pope. Il retourne à l'arsenal naval de Yokosuka pour les réparations à la fin du mois de mars.

À la fin d'avril, l'Akebono escorte les Myōkō et Haguro à Truk, rejoignant ensuite la force de l'amiral Takeo Takagi lors de la bataille de la mer de Corail. À la fin du mois de mai, il escorta le Zuikaku de Truk à l'arsenal naval de Kure.

Lors de la bataille de Midway au début du mois de juin, le destroyer faisait partie de la force de diversion de l'opération AL qui attaqua Dutch Harbour (en) (Alaska), lors de la campagne des Aléoutiennes. et retourna à Yokosuka début juillet.

Après un retour à Yokosuka début juillet, l'Akebono est réaffecté dans la flotte combinée en escortant le cuirassé Yamato et le porte-avions Taiyō lors de la bataille des Salomon orientales le 24 août. Il restera assigné au Taiyō jusqu'en septembre, puis au porte-avions Unyō d'octobre à février 1943. Jusqu'à la fin de 1943, l'Akebono servira d'escorte pour les Unyō, Taiyō, Ryūhō, Zuihō ou Jun'yō dans diverses missions à travers le Pacifique, à l'exception d'une période en décembre où il fut affecté à plusieurs missions de transport "Tokyo Express" dans les îles Salomon.

Le 1er janvier 1944, il rejoint la 5e flotte. Deux semaines plus tard, il sauve 89 survivants du destroyer torpillé Sazanami en route vers Truk. Après un passage à Yokosuka pour une remise en état le 25 janvier, il est réaffecté à partir du district de garde d'Ōminato pour patrouiller dans les eaux du nord jusqu'en octobre. Mais face au repli japonais dans les Philippines, le destroyer est réaffecté dans la Force de diversion de l'amiral Kiyohide Shima lors de la bataille du détroit de Surigao le 24 octobre. Le jour suivant, l'Akebono sauve environ 700 survivants du croiseur lourd Mogami qu'il saborde ensuite d'une torpille.

Le 13 novembre 1944, les Akebono et Akishimo sont gravement endommagé par un raid américain sur Manille. Les bombes mirent le feu aux deux navires. Le lendemain, une grande explosion se produisit à bord du Akishimo, provoquant leurs naufrages en eaux peu profondes à la position géographique 14° 35′ N, 120° 55′ E. 48 membres d'équipage sont tués et 43 blessés dans cette attaque.

Le destroyer est rayé des listes de la marine le 10 janvier 1945.

Akebono 1942
Description:	Type Destroyer Classe Fubuki Histoire A servi dans Naval Ensign of Japan.svg Marine impériale japonaise Commanditaire Drapeau du Japon Japon Chantier naval Fujinagata, Osaka Commandé 1923 Quille posée 25 novembre 1929 Lancement 7 novembre 1930 Commission 31 juillet 1931 Statut Coulé le 14 novembre 1944 L'Akebono (曙) était un destroyer de classe Fubuki en service dans la Marine impériale japonaise pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. À sa mise en service, il rejoint la 7e division de destroyers de la 2e flotte. Durant la deuxième guerre sino-japonaise, il couvre le débarquement des forces japonaises lors de la bataille de Shanghai et à Hangzhou. À partir de 1940, il patrouille et couvre les débarquements des forces japonaises dans le sud de la Chine tout en participant à l'invasion de l'Indochine française. Au moment de l'attaque de Pearl Harbor, l'Akebono est affecté à la 7e division de la 1re flotte aérienne. Maintenu en réserve dans les eaux territoriales japonaises en raison d'une hélice endommagé, il ne participera pas à l'attaque. Après des réparations achevées à la mi-janvier 1942, l'Akebono rejoint l'escorte des porte-avions Hiryū et Sōryū lors des frappes aériennes pendant la bataille d'Ambon, puis fait partie de l'escorte des croiseurs Nachi et Haguro lors de l'opération J. Le 1er mars, durant la bataille de la mer de Java, l'Akebono participe au naufrage du croiseur britannique HMS Exeter, du destroyer HMS Encounter, ainsi que du destroyer américain USS Pope. Il retourne à l'arsenal naval de Yokosuka pour les réparations à la fin du mois de mars. À la fin d'avril, l'Akebono escorte les Myōkō et Haguro à Truk, rejoignant ensuite la force de l'amiral Takeo Takagi lors de la bataille de la mer de Corail. À la fin du mois de mai, il escorta le Zuikaku de Truk à l'arsenal naval de Kure. Lors de la bataille de Midway au début du mois de juin, le destroyer faisait partie de la force de diversion de l'opération AL qui attaqua Dutch Harbour (en) (Alaska), lors de la campagne des Aléoutiennes. et retourna à Yokosuka début juillet. Après un retour à Yokosuka début juillet, l'Akebono est réaffecté dans la flotte combinée en escortant le cuirassé Yamato et le porte-avions Taiyō lors de la bataille des Salomon orientales le 24 août. Il restera assigné au Taiyō jusqu'en septembre, puis au porte-avions Unyō d'octobre à février 1943. Jusqu'à la fin de 1943, l'Akebono servira d'escorte pour les Unyō, Taiyō, Ryūhō, Zuihō ou Jun'yō dans diverses missions à travers le Pacifique, à l'exception d'une période en décembre où il fut affecté à plusieurs missions de transport "Tokyo Express" dans les îles Salomon. Le 1er janvier 1944, il rejoint la 5e flotte. Deux semaines plus tard, il sauve 89 survivants du destroyer torpillé Sazanami en route vers Truk. Après un passage à Yokosuka pour une remise en état le 25 janvier, il est réaffecté à partir du district de garde d'Ōminato pour patrouiller dans les eaux du nord jusqu'en octobre. Mais face au repli japonais dans les Philippines, le destroyer est réaffecté dans la Force de diversion de l'amiral Kiyohide Shima lors de la bataille du détroit de Surigao le 24 octobre. Le jour suivant, l'Akebono sauve environ 700 survivants du croiseur lourd Mogami qu'il saborde ensuite d'une torpille. Le 13 novembre 1944, les Akebono et Akishimo sont gravement endommagé par un raid américain sur Manille. Les bombes mirent le feu aux deux navires. Le lendemain, une grande explosion se produisit à bord du Akishimo, provoquant leurs naufrages en eaux peu profondes à la position géographique 14° 35′ N, 120° 55′ E. 48 membres d'équipage sont tués et 43 blessés dans cette attaque. Le destroyer est rayé des listes de la marine le 10 janvier 1945.

Akigumo 1943

Description: Akigumo (秋雲, "Autumn Clouds") was one of 19 Kagerō-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy during the 1930s.

Laid down: 2 July 1940
Launched: 11 April 1941
Commissioned: 27 September 1941
Struck: 10 June 1944
Fate: Sunk in action, 11 April 1944

The Akigumo was an escort in the carrier fleet that carried out the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.

Shortly after the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands during the early hours of 27 October 1942, Akigumo along with the destroyer Makigumo sank the heavily damaged and abandoned American aircraft carrier USS Hornet. US naval ships had attempted to scuttle Hornet earlier but failed to do so before Japanese naval forces forced the US ships to withdraw.

Akigumo served during the Pacific war in various theatres and by 1943/44 received the typical mid-war radar and AA refits, bringing the light AA outfit finally to four triple and one twin 25 mm mounts, plus some singles, and mounting both the active type 22 and the passive type E-27 radars.

On 11 April 1944, Akigumo was torpedoed and sunk by the submarine USS Redfin 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Zamboanga Peninsula, Philippines (06°43′N 122°23′E).

Akigumo 1943
Description:	Akigumo (秋雲, "Autumn Clouds") was one of 19 Kagerō-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy during the 1930s. Laid down: 2 July 1940 Launched: 11 April 1941 Commissioned: 27 September 1941 Struck: 10 June 1944 Fate: Sunk in action, 11 April 1944 The Akigumo was an escort in the carrier fleet that carried out the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. Shortly after the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands during the early hours of 27 October 1942, Akigumo along with the destroyer Makigumo sank the heavily damaged and abandoned American aircraft carrier USS Hornet. US naval ships had attempted to scuttle Hornet earlier but failed to do so before Japanese naval forces forced the US ships to withdraw. Akigumo served during the Pacific war in various theatres and by 1943/44 received the typical mid-war radar and AA refits, bringing the light AA outfit finally to four triple and one twin 25 mm mounts, plus some singles, and mounting both the active type 22 and the passive type E-27 radars. On 11 April 1944, Akigumo was torpedoed and sunk by the submarine USS Redfin 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Zamboanga Peninsula, Philippines (06°43′N 122°23′E).

Akishimo

Description: Akishimo (秋霜, "Autumn Frost") was a Yūgumo-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
Completed: 11 March 1944
Struck: 10 January 1945

She was at the Battle of Leyte Gulf, 23–26 October 1944. Assigned to 1st Diversion Attack Force. On 23 October, she rescued 769 survivors of the cruiser Maya. On 24 October, she assisted the torpedoed cruiser Myōkō. The next day she suffered minor damage in a collision with the destroyer Shimakaze. On 26 October she rescued 328 survivors from the cruiser Noshiro.

On 10 November 1944, Akishimo was escorting troop convoy TA No. 4 from Manila to Ormoc, Philippines. She suffered heavy damage in an air attack by U.S. Army B-25 Mitchells during the withdrawal; the ship took a direct bomb hit and lost her bow with 20 killed and 35 injured. The destroyer returned to Manila at 16 kn (30 km/h; 18 mph), then to Cavite Navy Yard on 11 November for repairs.

On 13 November, a U.S. air raid on Manila struck Akishimo, then alongside the destroyer Akebono at Cavite pier (14°35′N 120°55′E). Direct bomb hits set both ships ablaze. The following day a large explosion on Akishimo further damaged both ships; Akishimo rolled over onto her starboard side. There were 170 survivors, 15 crewmen killed and 25 wounded.

Akishimo
Description:	Akishimo (秋霜, "Autumn Frost") was a Yūgumo-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Completed: 11 March 1944 Struck: 10 January 1945 She was at the Battle of Leyte Gulf, 23–26 October 1944. Assigned to 1st Diversion Attack Force. On 23 October, she rescued 769 survivors of the cruiser Maya. On 24 October, she assisted the torpedoed cruiser Myōkō. The next day she suffered minor damage in a collision with the destroyer Shimakaze. On 26 October she rescued 328 survivors from the cruiser Noshiro. On 10 November 1944, Akishimo was escorting troop convoy TA No. 4 from Manila to Ormoc, Philippines. She suffered heavy damage in an air attack by U.S. Army B-25 Mitchells during the withdrawal; the ship took a direct bomb hit and lost her bow with 20 killed and 35 injured. The destroyer returned to Manila at 16 kn (30 km/h; 18 mph), then to Cavite Navy Yard on 11 November for repairs. On 13 November, a U.S. air raid on Manila struck Akishimo, then alongside the destroyer Akebono at Cavite pier (14°35′N 120°55′E). Direct bomb hits set both ships ablaze. The following day a large explosion on Akishimo further damaged both ships; Akishimo rolled over onto her starboard side. There were 170 survivors, 15 crewmen killed and 25 wounded.

Akishimo

Akishimo
Description:	Akishimo (秋霜, "Autumn Frost") was a Yūgumo-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Completed: 11 March 1944 Struck: 10 January 1945 She was at the Battle of Leyte Gulf, 23–26 October 1944. Assigned to 1st Diversion Attack Force. On 23 October, she rescued 769 survivors of the cruiser Maya. On 24 October, she assisted the torpedoed cruiser Myōkō. The next day she suffered minor damage in a collision with the destroyer Shimakaze. On 26 October she rescued 328 survivors from the cruiser Noshiro. On 10 November 1944, Akishimo was escorting troop convoy TA No. 4 from Manila to Ormoc, Philippines. She suffered heavy damage in an air attack by U.S. Army B-25 Mitchells during the withdrawal; the ship took a direct bomb hit and lost her bow with 20 killed and 35 injured. The destroyer returned to Manila at 16 kn (30 km/h; 18 mph), then to Cavite Navy Yard on 11 November for repairs. On 13 November, a U.S. air raid on Manila struck Akishimo, then alongside the destroyer Akebono at Cavite pier (14°35′N 120°55′E). Direct bomb hits set both ships ablaze. The following day a large explosion on Akishimo further damaged both ships; Akishimo rolled over onto her starboard side. There were 170 survivors, 15 crewmen killed and 25 wounded.

Akitsu Maru
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Akitsushima
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Akitsushima
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Akizuki & Hatsuzuki 1944
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Akizuki & Teruzuki
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Amagi
Description:	Amagi (天城,"Heaven Castle") was a Unryū-class aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. Named after Mount Amagi, and completed late in the war, she never embarked her complement of aircraft and spent the war in Japanese waters. The ship capsized in July 1945 after being hit multiple times during airstrikes by American carrier aircraft at Kure Naval Base. Amagi was refloated in 1946 and scrapped later that year.

Amagi
Description:	Amagi (天城,"Heaven Castle") was a Unryū-class aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. Named after Mount Amagi, and completed late in the war, she never embarked her complement of aircraft and spent the war in Japanese waters. The ship capsized in July 1945 after being hit multiple times during airstrikes by American carrier aircraft at Kure Naval Base. Amagi was refloated in 1946 and scrapped later that year.

Amagiri 1943

Description: Chantier naval Compagnie des docks d'Uraga
Commandé 1923
Quille posée 28 mars 1929
Lancement 23 décembre 1929
Commission 31 janvier 1931

À sa mise en service, il rejoint la 20e division de destroyers de la 2e flotte. Durant la deuxième guerre sino-japonaise, il couvre le débarquement des forces japonaises lors de la bataille de Shanghai et à Hangzhou. À partir de 1940, il patrouille et couvre les débarquements des forces japonaises dans le sud de la Chine.

Au moment de l'attaque de Pearl Harbor, le Sagiri est affecté à la 20e division (3e escadron de destroyers) de la 1re flotte, où il est déployé depuis le district naval de Kure.

À partir du 17 décembre, le Sagiri couvre les débarquements japonais à Miri et à Kuching (royaume de Sarawak). Le 24 décembre 1941, à environ 35 miles nautiques (65 km) au large de Kuching, le Sagiri est torpillé et coulé par le sous-marin hollandais HNLMS K XVI (en) à la position 1° 34′ N, 110° 21′ E, emportant 121 hommes d'équipage. Quelque 120 survivants sont sauvés par son navire jumeau, le destroyer Shirakumo.

Le destroyer est rayé des listes de la marine le 15 janvier 1942.

Amagiri 1943
Description:	Chantier naval Compagnie des docks d'Uraga Commandé 1923 Quille posée 28 mars 1929 Lancement 23 décembre 1929 Commission 31 janvier 1931 À sa mise en service, il rejoint la 20e division de destroyers de la 2e flotte. Durant la deuxième guerre sino-japonaise, il couvre le débarquement des forces japonaises lors de la bataille de Shanghai et à Hangzhou. À partir de 1940, il patrouille et couvre les débarquements des forces japonaises dans le sud de la Chine. Au moment de l'attaque de Pearl Harbor, le Sagiri est affecté à la 20e division (3e escadron de destroyers) de la 1re flotte, où il est déployé depuis le district naval de Kure. À partir du 17 décembre, le Sagiri couvre les débarquements japonais à Miri et à Kuching (royaume de Sarawak). Le 24 décembre 1941, à environ 35 miles nautiques (65 km) au large de Kuching, le Sagiri est torpillé et coulé par le sous-marin hollandais HNLMS K XVI (en) à la position 1° 34′ N, 110° 21′ E, emportant 121 hommes d'équipage. Quelque 120 survivants sont sauvés par son navire jumeau, le destroyer Shirakumo. Le destroyer est rayé des listes de la marine le 15 janvier 1942.

Amatsukaze

Description: Amatsukaze (天津風, "Heavenly Wind") was a Kagerō-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

Laid down: 14 February 1939
Launched: 19 October 1939
Commissioned: 26 October 1940
Struck: 10 August 1945
Fate: Sunk in action, 6 April 1945

Au cours de la première année de la guerre du Pacifique, le destroyer était sous le commandement de Tameichi Hara (en) au cours duquel il participe à la première bataille de la mer de Java, à la bataille des Salomon orientales et à la bataille des îles Santa Cruz. Pendant la bataille navale de Guadalcanal, il coule de deux torpilles l'USS Barton et endommage d'une torpille l'USS Juneau. Au cours de ces actions, il est repéré et attaqué par l'USS Helena qui l'endommage gravement, tuant 43 membres de son équipage. Ses turbines n'étant pas affectées, il parvient tant bien que mal à évacuer la zone à 20 nœuds (37 km / h) en utilisant la direction manuelle d'urgence.

Le 11 janvier 1944, alors qu'il escortait un convoi de quatre navires en mer de Chine méridionale, l'Amatsukaze est torpillé par le sous-marin USS Redfin (en). L'explosion d'un magasin endommage gravement la proue et tue 80 membres d'équipage. Présumé coulé, le navire n'est découvert que six jours plus tard par un avion de patrouille maritime. L'Amatsukaze est remorqué tant bien que mal à Singapour et réparé de longs mois.
L'Amatsukaze attaqué le 6 avril 1945 en mer de Chine méridionale.

Le 6 avril 1945, l'Amatsukaze est attaqué par des B-25 de l'USAAF à 9,7 km à l'est d'Amoy, à la position géographique 24° 30′ N, 118° 10′ E. Gravement endommagé, son équipage décide d'échouer le navire. Le 8 avril, les tentatives de sauvetage sont abandonnées. Le 10 avril, le navire est sabordé avec des charges explosives.

En 2012, l'épave de l'Amatsukaze est retrouvée par un navire d'ingénierie chinois. Environ 30 tonnes d'épave ont été renflouée, coupées en morceaux et vendues pour ferraillage avant l'intervention des départements d'administration des reliques locales. Selon les médias chinois, un musée sera construit pour protéger l'épave restante.

Amatsukaze
Description:	Amatsukaze (天津風, "Heavenly Wind") was a Kagerō-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Laid down: 14 February 1939 Launched: 19 October 1939 Commissioned: 26 October 1940 Struck: 10 August 1945 Fate: Sunk in action, 6 April 1945 Au cours de la première année de la guerre du Pacifique, le destroyer était sous le commandement de Tameichi Hara (en) au cours duquel il participe à la première bataille de la mer de Java, à la bataille des Salomon orientales et à la bataille des îles Santa Cruz. Pendant la bataille navale de Guadalcanal, il coule de deux torpilles l'USS Barton et endommage d'une torpille l'USS Juneau. Au cours de ces actions, il est repéré et attaqué par l'USS Helena qui l'endommage gravement, tuant 43 membres de son équipage. Ses turbines n'étant pas affectées, il parvient tant bien que mal à évacuer la zone à 20 nœuds (37 km / h) en utilisant la direction manuelle d'urgence. Le 11 janvier 1944, alors qu'il escortait un convoi de quatre navires en mer de Chine méridionale, l'Amatsukaze est torpillé par le sous-marin USS Redfin (en). L'explosion d'un magasin endommage gravement la proue et tue 80 membres d'équipage. Présumé coulé, le navire n'est découvert que six jours plus tard par un avion de patrouille maritime. L'Amatsukaze est remorqué tant bien que mal à Singapour et réparé de longs mois. L'Amatsukaze attaqué le 6 avril 1945 en mer de Chine méridionale. Le 6 avril 1945, l'Amatsukaze est attaqué par des B-25 de l'USAAF à 9,7 km à l'est d'Amoy, à la position géographique 24° 30′ N, 118° 10′ E. Gravement endommagé, son équipage décide d'échouer le navire. Le 8 avril, les tentatives de sauvetage sont abandonnées. Le 10 avril, le navire est sabordé avec des charges explosives. En 2012, l'épave de l'Amatsukaze est retrouvée par un navire d'ingénierie chinois. Environ 30 tonnes d'épave ont été renflouée, coupées en morceaux et vendues pour ferraillage avant l'intervention des départements d'administration des reliques locales. Selon les médias chinois, un musée sera construit pour protéger l'épave restante.

Amatsukaze

Amatsukaze
Description:	Amatsukaze (天津風, "Heavenly Wind") was a Kagerō-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Laid down: 14 February 1939 Launched: 19 October 1939 Commissioned: 26 October 1940 Struck: 10 August 1945 Fate: Sunk in action, 6 April 1945 Au cours de la première année de la guerre du Pacifique, le destroyer était sous le commandement de Tameichi Hara (en) au cours duquel il participe à la première bataille de la mer de Java, à la bataille des Salomon orientales et à la bataille des îles Santa Cruz. Pendant la bataille navale de Guadalcanal, il coule de deux torpilles l'USS Barton et endommage d'une torpille l'USS Juneau. Au cours de ces actions, il est repéré et attaqué par l'USS Helena qui l'endommage gravement, tuant 43 membres de son équipage. Ses turbines n'étant pas affectées, il parvient tant bien que mal à évacuer la zone à 20 nœuds (37 km / h) en utilisant la direction manuelle d'urgence. Le 11 janvier 1944, alors qu'il escortait un convoi de quatre navires en mer de Chine méridionale, l'Amatsukaze est torpillé par le sous-marin USS Redfin (en). L'explosion d'un magasin endommage gravement la proue et tue 80 membres d'équipage. Présumé coulé, le navire n'est découvert que six jours plus tard par un avion de patrouille maritime. L'Amatsukaze est remorqué tant bien que mal à Singapour et réparé de longs mois. L'Amatsukaze attaqué le 6 avril 1945 en mer de Chine méridionale. Le 6 avril 1945, l'Amatsukaze est attaqué par des B-25 de l'USAAF à 9,7 km à l'est d'Amoy, à la position géographique 24° 30′ N, 118° 10′ E. Gravement endommagé, son équipage décide d'échouer le navire. Le 8 avril, les tentatives de sauvetage sont abandonnées. Le 10 avril, le navire est sabordé avec des charges explosives. En 2012, l'épave de l'Amatsukaze est retrouvée par un navire d'ingénierie chinois. Environ 30 tonnes d'épave ont été renflouée, coupées en morceaux et vendues pour ferraillage avant l'intervention des départements d'administration des reliques locales. Selon les médias chinois, un musée sera construit pour protéger l'épave restante.

Aoba
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Arashio
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Arashio

Description: Ordered: 1934 Maru-2 Program
Builder: Kawasaki Shipyards
Laid down: 1 October 1935
Launched: 26 May 1937
Commissioned: 30 December 1937
Struck: 1 April 1943
Fate: Sunk in Battle of the Bismarck Sea, 4 March 1943

At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Arashio, under the command of Lieutenant Commander Hideo Kuboki, was assigned to Destroyer Division 8 (Desdiv 8), and a member of Destroyer Squadron 2 (Desron 2) of the IJN 2nd Fleet, escorting Admiral Nobutake Kondō's Southern Force Main Body out of Mako Guard District as distant cover to the Malaya and Philippines invasion forces in December 1941.[5]

Arashio escorted a Malaya troop convoy from Mako towards Singora, then put into Hong Kong on 5 January 1942. She escorted another troop convoy to Davao, and then accompanied the Ambon invasion force (31 January), the Makassar invasion force (8 February) and the Bali/Lombok invasion force (18 February).

On the night of 19 February 1942, Arashio participated in the Battle of Badoeng Strait, entering the battle late as she was assigned to guard the transport Sagami Maru, and did not see combat. Arashio returned to Yokosuka Naval Arsenal in March, and was reassigned to the IJN 2nd Fleet on 10 April. She assisted in the siege of Corregidor in the Philippines from 24 April-18 May, and then returned to Kure. After escorting a convoy to Guam at the end of May, Arashio joined the escort for the Midway Invasion Force under the overall command of Admiral Takeo Kurita during the Battle of Midway. She assisted the destroyer Asashio in rescuing survivors from the stricken cruiser Mikuma and, during the attacks on the cruisers, suffered severe damage from United States Navy aircraft on 6 June, with one direct bomb strike killing 37 crewmen, including several survivors from Mikuma, and wounding many more, including Destroyer Division 8 commander Commander Nobuki Ogawa. In spite of the severe damage she escorted the cruiser Mogami to Truk. At Truk, she underwent emergency repairs by Akashi, which enabled her to return to Sasebo Naval Arsenal by 23 July.

After completion of repairs on 20 October, Arashio was assigned to Rabaul, Arashio was assigned to thirteen “Tokyo Express” transport runs to Buna, Shortland Island, Kolombangara and Guadalcanal and Wewak through mid-February 1943. On 20 February, she rescued the survivors of her torpedoed sister ship Ōshio off of Wewak. Arashio was reassigned to the IJN 8th Fleet on 25 February 1943.

During the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, she was damaged by three bombs from a USAAF B-25C Mitchell bomber named "Chatter Box" on 3 March, which damaged her rudder, causing a collision with troopship Nojima Maru. The destroyer Yukikaze took off her 176 survivors, which did not include her captain (Cdr Hideo Kuboki). Her abandoned hulk was sunk by United States Navy aircraft at position 07°15′S 148°30′ approximately 55 nautical miles (102 km; 63 mi) southeast of Finschhafen, New Guinea. She was removed from the navy list on 1 April 1943.

Arashio
Description:	Ordered: 1934 Maru-2 Program Builder: Kawasaki Shipyards Laid down: 1 October 1935 Launched: 26 May 1937 Commissioned: 30 December 1937 Struck: 1 April 1943 Fate: Sunk in Battle of the Bismarck Sea, 4 March 1943 At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Arashio, under the command of Lieutenant Commander Hideo Kuboki, was assigned to Destroyer Division 8 (Desdiv 8), and a member of Destroyer Squadron 2 (Desron 2) of the IJN 2nd Fleet, escorting Admiral Nobutake Kondō's Southern Force Main Body out of Mako Guard District as distant cover to the Malaya and Philippines invasion forces in December 1941.[5] Arashio escorted a Malaya troop convoy from Mako towards Singora, then put into Hong Kong on 5 January 1942. She escorted another troop convoy to Davao, and then accompanied the Ambon invasion force (31 January), the Makassar invasion force (8 February) and the Bali/Lombok invasion force (18 February). On the night of 19 February 1942, Arashio participated in the Battle of Badoeng Strait, entering the battle late as she was assigned to guard the transport Sagami Maru, and did not see combat. Arashio returned to Yokosuka Naval Arsenal in March, and was reassigned to the IJN 2nd Fleet on 10 April. She assisted in the siege of Corregidor in the Philippines from 24 April-18 May, and then returned to Kure. After escorting a convoy to Guam at the end of May, Arashio joined the escort for the Midway Invasion Force under the overall command of Admiral Takeo Kurita during the Battle of Midway. She assisted the destroyer Asashio in rescuing survivors from the stricken cruiser Mikuma and, during the attacks on the cruisers, suffered severe damage from United States Navy aircraft on 6 June, with one direct bomb strike killing 37 crewmen, including several survivors from Mikuma, and wounding many more, including Destroyer Division 8 commander Commander Nobuki Ogawa. In spite of the severe damage she escorted the cruiser Mogami to Truk. At Truk, she underwent emergency repairs by Akashi, which enabled her to return to Sasebo Naval Arsenal by 23 July. After completion of repairs on 20 October, Arashio was assigned to Rabaul, Arashio was assigned to thirteen “Tokyo Express” transport runs to Buna, Shortland Island, Kolombangara and Guadalcanal and Wewak through mid-February 1943. On 20 February, she rescued the survivors of her torpedoed sister ship Ōshio off of Wewak. Arashio was reassigned to the IJN 8th Fleet on 25 February 1943. During the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, she was damaged by three bombs from a USAAF B-25C Mitchell bomber named "Chatter Box" on 3 March, which damaged her rudder, causing a collision with troopship Nojima Maru. The destroyer Yukikaze took off her 176 survivors, which did not include her captain (Cdr Hideo Kuboki). Her abandoned hulk was sunk by United States Navy aircraft at position 07°15′S 148°30′ approximately 55 nautical miles (102 km; 63 mi) southeast of Finschhafen, New Guinea. She was removed from the navy list on 1 April 1943.

Ariake
Description:	Ariake (有明 ”Daybreak”) was the fifth of six Hatsuharu-class destroyers. Builder: Kawasaki Shipyards, Japan Laid down: 14 January 1933 Launched: 23 September 1934 Commissioned: 25 March 1935 Struck: 15 October 1943 Fate: Sunk in action, 28 July 1943 On 27–28 July 1943, Ariake was on a troop transport run to Tuluvu, New Britain. After grounding on a reef near Cape Gloucester (05°27′S 148°25′E) with the destroyer Mikazuki, Ariake was able to work free. She removed troops and ComDesDiv 30 (Captain Orita Tsuneo) from Mikazuki and completed the mission to Tuluvu, then returned to assist Mikazuki. She was sunk while so engaged by U.S. Army B-25 Mitchells. Seven men were killed, along with Ariake's captain, Lt. Cmdr. Akifumi Kawahashi.

Asagumo

Description: Asagumo (朝雲 Morning Cloud) was the fifth of ten Asashio-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy.

Builder: Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation
Laid down: 23 December 1936
Launched: 5 November 1937
Commissioned: 30 March 1938
Struck: 10 January 1945
Fate: Sunk in Battle of Surigao Strait, 25 October 1944

In October 1944, she was assigned to Vice Admiral Shōji Nishimura's fleet at the Battle of Surigao Strait, Asagumo was torpedoed by the destroyer USS McDermut and subsequently finished off by gunfire from US Navy cruisers and destroyers at position (10°04′N 125°21′E). Of her crew, 191 were killed, but 39 survivors, including her captain, Commander Shibayama, were taken prisoner by the Americans.[6] Asagumo was removed from the navy list on 10 January 1945.

It was said that she rescued survivors of the battleship Fusō, which was torpedoed by the destroyer USS Melvin, threw off formation, blew up, broke into two, and sank afterwards, only for them to all go down with the ship when Asagumo sank.

Asagumo
Description:	Asagumo (朝雲 Morning Cloud) was the fifth of ten Asashio-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Builder: Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation Laid down: 23 December 1936 Launched: 5 November 1937 Commissioned: 30 March 1938 Struck: 10 January 1945 Fate: Sunk in Battle of Surigao Strait, 25 October 1944 In October 1944, she was assigned to Vice Admiral Shōji Nishimura's fleet at the Battle of Surigao Strait, Asagumo was torpedoed by the destroyer USS McDermut and subsequently finished off by gunfire from US Navy cruisers and destroyers at position (10°04′N 125°21′E). Of her crew, 191 were killed, but 39 survivors, including her captain, Commander Shibayama, were taken prisoner by the Americans.[6] Asagumo was removed from the navy list on 10 January 1945. It was said that she rescued survivors of the battleship Fusō, which was torpedoed by the destroyer USS Melvin, threw off formation, blew up, broke into two, and sank afterwards, only for them to all go down with the ship when Asagumo sank.

Asaka Maru 1942
Description:	Completed in Nov 1937. Sunk on 12 Oct 1944 at Bako by US Aircrafts.

Asashimo

Description: Asashimo (朝霜, "Morning Frost") was a Yūgumo-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was among the several ships sunk during Operation Ten-Go by attacking US aircraft in 1945.

Completed: 27 November 1943

On 6 April 1945, Asashimo escorted the battleship Yamato from the Inland Sea on Operation Ten-Go towards Okinawa. She was sunk on 7 April by aircraft of Task Force 58, from the aircraft carrier USS San Jacinto after falling astern of the Yamato task force due to engine trouble, 150 miles (240 km) southwest of Nagasaki. All of her 326 crew members lost their lives. The others, including the destroyer Hamakaze, were sunk during the same attack, also by aircraft of San Jacinto, but several destroyers, such as Suzutsuki survived with heavy damage. Asashimo was sunk at (31°N 128°E).

Asashimo
Description:	Asashimo (朝霜, "Morning Frost") was a Yūgumo-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was among the several ships sunk during Operation Ten-Go by attacking US aircraft in 1945. Completed: 27 November 1943 On 6 April 1945, Asashimo escorted the battleship Yamato from the Inland Sea on Operation Ten-Go towards Okinawa. She was sunk on 7 April by aircraft of Task Force 58, from the aircraft carrier USS San Jacinto after falling astern of the Yamato task force due to engine trouble, 150 miles (240 km) southwest of Nagasaki. All of her 326 crew members lost their lives. The others, including the destroyer Hamakaze, were sunk during the same attack, also by aircraft of San Jacinto, but several destroyers, such as Suzutsuki survived with heavy damage. Asashimo was sunk at (31°N 128°E).

Asashimo

Asashimo
Description:	Asashimo (朝霜, "Morning Frost") was a Yūgumo-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was among the several ships sunk during Operation Ten-Go by attacking US aircraft in 1945. Completed: 27 November 1943 On 6 April 1945, Asashimo escorted the battleship Yamato from the Inland Sea on Operation Ten-Go towards Okinawa. She was sunk on 7 April by aircraft of Task Force 58, from the aircraft carrier USS San Jacinto after falling astern of the Yamato task force due to engine trouble, 150 miles (240 km) southwest of Nagasaki. All of her 326 crew members lost their lives. The others, including the destroyer Hamakaze, were sunk during the same attack, also by aircraft of San Jacinto, but several destroyers, such as Suzutsuki survived with heavy damage. Asashimo was sunk at (31°N 128°E).

Asashio
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Ashigara

Description: Ashigara (足柄) was the final vessel of the four-member Myōkō class of heavy cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Navy, which were active in World War II. The other ships of the class were Nachi, Myōkō, and Haguro.[3] Ashigara was named after Mount Ashigara on the border of Kanagawa and Shizuoka Prefectures.
Laid down: 11 April 1925
Launched: 22 April 1928
Commissioned: 20 August 1929
Fate: Sunk by HMS Trenchant, 8 June 1945

On 8 June 1945, Ashigara left Batavia for Singapore with 1,600 troops on board, escorted by the destroyer Kamikaze. In the Bangka Strait the two ships came under attack from three Allied submarines, USS Blueback, HMS Trenchant and HMS Stygian. Kamikaze attacked Trenchant with gunfire, forcing her to submerge, and then with depth charges. Trenchant 's C.O., Commander Arthur Hezlet, spotted Ashigara and fired eight torpedoes at about 12:15.Trapped between the shore and a minefield, Ashigara attempted to turn to comb the torpedoes, but was unable to complete the maneuver in time and was hit five times at a range of 4,000 yards (3,700 m). Trenchant then fired two more torpedoes, sinking Ashigara at 12:37 at (01°59′S 104°56′ECoordinates: 01°59′S 104°56′E). Kamikaze rescued 400 Army troops and 853 crewmen, including her captain, Rear Admiral Miura, however over 1200 troops and 100 crewmen went down with the ship. Ashigara was removed from the navy list on 20 August 1945.

Ashigara
Description:	Ashigara (足柄) was the final vessel of the four-member Myōkō class of heavy cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Navy, which were active in World War II. The other ships of the class were Nachi, Myōkō, and Haguro.[3] Ashigara was named after Mount Ashigara on the border of Kanagawa and Shizuoka Prefectures. Laid down: 11 April 1925 Launched: 22 April 1928 Commissioned: 20 August 1929 Fate: Sunk by HMS Trenchant, 8 June 1945 On 8 June 1945, Ashigara left Batavia for Singapore with 1,600 troops on board, escorted by the destroyer Kamikaze. In the Bangka Strait the two ships came under attack from three Allied submarines, USS Blueback, HMS Trenchant and HMS Stygian. Kamikaze attacked Trenchant with gunfire, forcing her to submerge, and then with depth charges. Trenchant 's C.O., Commander Arthur Hezlet, spotted Ashigara and fired eight torpedoes at about 12:15.Trapped between the shore and a minefield, Ashigara attempted to turn to comb the torpedoes, but was unable to complete the maneuver in time and was hit five times at a range of 4,000 yards (3,700 m). Trenchant then fired two more torpedoes, sinking Ashigara at 12:37 at (01°59′S 104°56′ECoordinates: 01°59′S 104°56′E). Kamikaze rescued 400 Army troops and 853 crewmen, including her captain, Rear Admiral Miura, however over 1200 troops and 100 crewmen went down with the ship. Ashigara was removed from the navy list on 20 August 1945.

Ashizuri

Description: The Ashizuri-class combat support ship (足摺型給油艦 Ashizuri-gata kyūyukan) was a class of two support ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), serving during World War II. Not joining the IJN till mid-1943 when the Japanese navy was well and truly on the back foot, the ships participated in convoy duties delivering fuel oil around Southeast Asia. Their top speed of 16 knots meant that they would not have been capable of keeping up with the fast carrier battle groups.

Ship # Ship Builder Laid down Launched Completed
219 Ashizuri (足摺) Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Nagasaki 08-07-1941 16-05-1942 30-01-1943
220 Shioya (塩屋) Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Nagasaki 01-04-1942 08-03-1943 09-11-1943

Ashizuri was sunk by the USS Puffer at Sulu Sea 06°33′N 122°55′E on 5 June 1944, and Shioya was lost to USS Rasher three days later.

Ashizuri
Description:	The Ashizuri-class combat support ship (足摺型給油艦 Ashizuri-gata kyūyukan) was a class of two support ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), serving during World War II. Not joining the IJN till mid-1943 when the Japanese navy was well and truly on the back foot, the ships participated in convoy duties delivering fuel oil around Southeast Asia. Their top speed of 16 knots meant that they would not have been capable of keeping up with the fast carrier battle groups. Ship # Ship Builder Laid down Launched Completed 219 Ashizuri (足摺) Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Nagasaki 08-07-1941 16-05-1942 30-01-1943 220 Shioya (塩屋) Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Nagasaki 01-04-1942 08-03-1943 09-11-1943 Ashizuri was sunk by the USS Puffer at Sulu Sea 06°33′N 122°55′E on 5 June 1944, and Shioya was lost to USS Rasher three days later.

Atago 1941
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Atago 1942 Solomon Islands
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Ataka
Description:	Ataka (安宅) was a river gunboat of the Imperial Japanese Navy that operated on the Yangtze River in China during the 1930s, and during the Second Sino-Japanese War. On 20 May 1933 Ataka was incorporated into the 3rd Fleet, as flagship of the 11th Gunboat Sentai. She was supplanted by the Yaeyama as flagship in 1937. Based in Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War, Ataka was transferred to the Republic of China Navy after the war. She defected to the People's Liberation Army Navy in 1949, and was sunk in Wuhu by Nationalist aircraft on 24 September the same year.

Ayanami

Description: Ayanami (綾波 "Twilled Waves") was the eleventh of twenty-four Fubuki-class destroyers, built for the Imperial Japanese Navy following World War I. When introduced into services, these ships were the most powerful destroyers in the world. They served as first-line destroyers through the 1930s, and remained formidable weapons systems well into the Pacific War.
Builder: Fujinagata Shipyards
Yard number: Destroyer No. 45
Laid down: 2 January 1928
Launched: 5 October 1929
Completed: 1 August 1928
Commissioned: 30 April 1930
Struck: 15 December 1942
Fate: Sunk by gunfire from USS Washington, 15 November 1942
Ayanami was first sighted by the American destroyer USS Walke, but the light cruiser Nagara was located soon after and the four destroyers' attentions shifted to it. Torpedo and shellfire from Ayanami, Nagara, and Uranami sank two of the four destroyers (USS Preston and USS Walke), mortally wounded USS Benham (which was scuttled after the battle), and severely damaged USS Gwin, causing heavy American losses in the first phase of the battle.
Lee's USS Washington then sighted Ayanami and shelled her. The Japanese destroyer sustained critical damage and 27 of her crew were killed; she fired one shell, which missed Washington. Thirty surviving crew members including Commander Sakuma escaped in a boat to Guadalcanal; the remainder were taken off by Uranami. At the same time Washington crippled and sank the battleship Kirishima. Later in the night Uranami scuttled the abandoned Ayanami with a single torpedo, and she sank soon after 02:00. Her wreck remains at the bottom of Ironbottom Sound.[10]

On 12 December 1942, Ayanami was removed from the navy list.

Ayanami 1930-1942

Ayanami 1941

Ayanami 1942

Chidori

Description: The Chidori-class torpedo boat (千鳥型水雷艇 Chidori-gata suiraitei) was an Imperial Japanese Navy class of torpedo boats that served during the Second World War. They proved to have too much armament for the hull and Tomozuru (友鶴) capsized shortly after completion in heavy weather. The entire class had to be rebuilt before they became satisfactory sea-boats. They saw service in the Battle of the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies campaign as escorts and continued in that role for the rest of the war. Three were sunk during the war and the fourth was seized by the British at Hong Kong after the end of the war where it was scrapped later.

Ship Builder Laid down Launched Completed Improved Fate
Chidori (千鳥) Maizuru Naval Construction Department 13-10-1931 01-04-1933 20-11-1933 November 1934 Sunk 21-12-1944 by USS Tilefish at west of Omaezaki 34°33′N 138°02′E.

Chiyoda 1944

Description: Chiyoda (千代田) was a light aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. Originally constructed as the second vessel of the Chitose-class seaplane tenders in 1934, she continued to operate in that capacity during the Second Sino-Japanese War and the early stages of the Pacific War until her conversion into a light aircraft carrier after the Battle of Midway. She was sunk during the Battle of Leyte Gulf by a combination of naval bombers, cruiser shellfire and destroyer-launched torpedoes.

Chiyoda returned to Yokosuka on 8 January 1943 and was converted from a seaplane tender to a light aircraft carrier at the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal beginning 16 January, with the work completed on 21 December 1943.

Namesake: Japanese for "field of a thousand generations"
Ordered: 1934
Builder: Kure Naval Arsenal
Laid down: 14 December 1936 as seaplane carrier
Launched: 19 November 1937
Commissioned: 15 December 1938
Recommissioned: 21 December 1943
Reclassified: 15 December 1943 as light carrier
Refit: 1942 to 1944
Fate: Sunk in the Battle of Leyte Gulf, 25 October 1944.

On 20 October 1944 Chiyoda departed Oita as part of Admiral Jisaburō Ozawa’s Decoy Force intended to lure the American fleet away from the landing beaches in the Philippines in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. This force included Zuikaku, Zuihō , Chitose and Chiyoda, all divested of aircraft and accompanied by converted hybrid battleship-carrier Hyūga and Ise and cruisers Oyodo, Tama, Isuzu. On 25 October, both Chiyoda and Chitose were sunk by a combination of naval bombers, cruiser shellfire and destroyer-launched torpedoes during the Battle of Cape Engano .

Chiyoda was crippled by four bombs dropped by aircraft from the carriers USS Franklin and USS Lexington that left her dead in the water. The converted hybrid battleship-carrier Hyūga attempted to take her in tow, but was prevented by a third attack. The cruiser Isuzu was ordered to remove Chiyoda's crew, but this was also frustrated due to continuing danger from air and surface attack. After three attempts, Isuzu was forced to retreat with U.S. surface forces in sight and Chiyoda under naval gunfire. She was finished off by gunfire from four cruisers USS Santa Fe, Mobile, Wichita and New Orleans along with nine destroyers, all under the command of Rear Admiral Laurence DuBose.[3][5] No survivors were permitted to be rescued, and Captain Jō Eiichirō and the entire crew of 1,470 officers and men went down with the ship at position 19°20′N 126°20′E Chiyoda was removed from the navy list on 20 December 1944.

Chogei

Description: Chōgei (長鯨 Long Whale) was the second and final vessel of the Jingei-class submarine tenders operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy, from the 1920s through World War II. Along with her sister ship Jingei, she was the first purpose-built submarine tender in the Imperial Japanese Navy. The Jingei-class submarine tenders (迅鯨型潜水母艦, Jingei-gata Sensuibokan) were a class of submarine tenders of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), and served from the 1920s through World War II. Two vessels of this class were built between 1922 and 1924 under the Eight-eight fleet plan.
Builder: Mitsubishi Nagasaki Shipyards
Laid down: 11 March 1922
Launched: 24 March 1924
Completed: 20 August 1924
Out of service: 30 July 1945
Struck: 5 October 1945
Reinstated: October 1945 - August 1946 (reparation transport)
Fate: Scrapped 1947

Chuyo

Description: Chūyō (冲鷹, "hawk which soars") was a Taiyō-class escort carrier originally built as Nitta Maru (新田丸), first of her class of three passenger-cargo liners built in Japan during the late 1930s. She was requisitioned by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in late 1941 and was converted into an escort carrier in 1942. She spent most of her service ferrying aircraft, cargo and passengers to Truk until she was torpedoed and sunk by an American submarine in late 1943 with heavy loss of life.

Commissioned: 25 November 1942
Renamed: Chūyō, 31 August 1942
Struck: 5 February 1944
Fate: Sunk by the submarine USS Sailfish, 4 December 1943

On 30 November, the carrier departed Truk in company with the light carrier Zuihō and her sister Un'yō; the carriers were escorted by the heavy cruiser Maya and four destroyers. Chūyō and Un'yō had aboard 21 and 20 captured crewmen from the sunken submarine USS Sculpin, respectively. At 10 minutes after midnight on 4 December, Chūyō was hit in the bow by a torpedo fired by USS Sailfish at 32°30′N 143°40′E. The detonation blew off her bow and caused the forward part of the flight deck to collapse. To reduce pressure on the interior bulkheads, the ship's captain began steaming in reverse at half speed towards Yokosuka. Nearly six hours later, she was again torpedoed by Sailfish at 05:55, this time twice in the port engine room, at 31°55′N 143°30′E. The hits disabled her engines and Maya and one destroyer came alongside to render assistance. Sailfish attacked again at 08:42 and hit the carrier with one or two torpedoes on the port side. The hits caused massive flooding and Chūyō capsized very quickly to port six minutes later. There were very few survivors because of the speed at which she sank. Only 161 crewmen and passengers were saved, including one American prisoner of war (PoW); 737 passengers and 513 crewmen were lost. She was stricken from the Navy List on 5 February 1944.

Escort Type Ukuru-A

Description: The Ukuru class escort ships (鵜来型海防艦 Ukuru-gata kaibōkan) were a class of ships in the service of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. The Japanese called these ships Kaibōkan, "ocean defence ships" (Kai = sea, ocean, Bō = defense, Kan = ship), a name used to denote a multi-purpose vessel. The twenty-nine ships of the Ukuru class were a major part of Japan's escort force from the middle of World War II. They were denoted "Modified Type B"(改乙型 (Kai-Otsu-gata?)) ships, and they were the fourth class of Kaibokan.

Ukuru (鵜来), constructed at Nihon Kokan, Tsurumi, laid down on October 9, 1943, launched on May 15, 1944, and commissioned on July 31, 1944. Ukuru survived the war and later became a weather survey ship in the Japanese Maritime Transport Bureau before being sold for scrapping on November 24, 1965. Her hull number PL104 is seen in a scene in the 1961 classic Japanese movie "Mothra".

Escort Type Ukuru-A

Escort Type Ukuru-B (Type 3 Depth Charge Throwers)

Description: The Ukuru class escort ships (鵜来型海防艦 Ukuru-gata kaibōkan) were a class of ships in the service of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. The Japanese called these ships Kaibōkan, "ocean defence ships" (Kai = sea, ocean, Bō = defense, Kan = ship), a name used to denote a multi-purpose vessel. The twenty-nine ships of the Ukuru class were a major part of Japan's escort force from the middle of World War II. They were denoted "Modified Type B"(改乙型 (Kai-Otsu-gata?)) ships, and they were the fourth class of Kaibokan.

The Ukuru class of ships were used for fleet escort and antisubmarine patrol; 20 vessels of this type were commissioned from 1944-5, developed from the Mikura type. This one is equipped with 16 Type 3 depth charge throwers, a 12cm high-angle cannon, and 25mm triple- and single-unit guns. Includes another model of a 17-meter boat as well;

Ukuru (鵜来), constructed at Nihon Kokan, Tsurumi, laid down on October 9, 1943, launched on May 15, 1944, and commissioned on July 31, 1944. Ukuru survived the war and later became a weather survey ship in the Japanese Maritime Transport Bureau before being sold for scrapping on November 24, 1965. Her hull number PL104 is seen in a scene in the 1961 classic Japanese movie "Mothra".

Fujinami

Description: Fujinami (藤波) was a Yūgumo-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her name means "Purple Wave" or "Waves of Wisterias". Damaged by a dud aerial torpedo during an air raid at Rabaul on 5 November 1943, with one dead and nine wounded. The ship participated in the Battle of Philippine Sea.

In the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Fujinami escorted the 1st Diversion Attack Force, commanded by Admiral Kurita Takeo. She sustained minor damage from the air attacks on 24–25 October due to near-misses and strafing. In the Battle off Samar on 25 October Fujinami was detached to assist Chōkai, then she removed survivors and scuttled the cruiser with a torpedo. On 27 October, while steaming to assist the destroyer Hayashimo, Fujinami was sunk by aircraft from the aircraft carrier USS Essex, 80 miles (130 km) north of Iloilo (12°0′N 122°30′E). She was lost with all hands, including the Chōkai survivors. The commanding officer was Cmdr. Tatsuji Matsuzaki from 31 July 1943 – 27 October 1944 (KIA). Some US survivors of the escort carrier Gambier Bay have stated that Captain Matsuzaki restrained his men from firing on them as they floated by Fujinami and was allegedly seen to salute the American sailors.

Haguro

Description: Haguro (羽黒) was a Myōkō-class heavy cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy, named after Mount Haguro in Yamagata Prefecture. Commissioned in 1929, Haguro saw significant service during World War II, participating in nine naval engagements. She was sunk in 1945 during a fight with Royal Navy destroyers, one of the last major Japanese warships to be sunk during World War II.

Builder: Mitsubishi shipyard, Nagasaki
Laid down: 16 March 1925
Launched: 24 March 1928
Commissioned: 25 April 1929
Struck: 20 June 1945
Fate: Sunk in the Strait of Malacca by gunfire and torpedoes from Royal Navy destroyers, 16 May 1945

In May 1945, Haguro was the target of the British "Operation Dukedom" and was ambushed. The 26th Destroyer Flotilla found her with the destroyer Kamikaze just after midnight on 16 May 1945, and began the attack. During the battle, Kamikaze was lightly damaged, but Haguro was hit by gunfire and three Mark IX torpedoes from the British destroyers. She soon began to slow down and took a 30-degrees list to port.

At 02:32, Haguro began to go down stern first in the Malacca Strait, 55 mi (48 nmi; 89 km) off Penang; Kamikaze rescued 320 survivors, but 900 men, including Vice Admiral Hashimoto and Rear Admiral Sugiura, perished with her. Rear Admiral Sugiura was posthumously promoted to Vice Admiral on 16 May. Haguro was the last major Japanese warship to be sunk in battle during the war.[3]

Haguro was stricken from the navy list on 20 June 1945. The wreck was discovered in 2003, showing significant superstructure damage from her last and earlier battles.

Hashidate

Description: Hashidate (橋立) was the lead vessel in the Hashidate-class gunboats in the Imperial Japanese Navy, that operated in China during the 1940s. Hashidate was authorized under the Maru-3 Naval Expansion Budget of 1937. She was laid down at Osaka Iron Works on February 20, 1939 and launched on December 23, 1939, and was commissioned into the Imperial Japanese Navy as on June 30, 1940.

With the start of the Pacific War, she was assigned to ”Operation C” – the invasion of Hong Kong.[2] She remained based from Hong Kong for most of the war. At some point in 1943, five additional Type 96 25 mm AT/AA Guns were added, along with depth charges in 1944.

On May 22, 1944, she was torpedoed by USS Picuda (SS-382) in the South China Sea south of the Pratas Islands while towing the crippled merchant passenger/cargo ship Tsukuba Maru at position 21°08′N 117°20′E.

Hatakaze

Description: The Japanese destroyer Hatakaze (旗風 ”Flag Wind”) was one of nine Kamikaze-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the 1920s. During the Pacific War, she participated in the Philippines Campaign in December 1941 and the Dutch East Indies Campaign in early 1942. She took part in the Battle of Sunda Strait in March and helped to sink two Allied cruisers.

Name: Hatakaze
Builder: Maizuru Naval Arsenal
Laid down: 3 July 1923 as Destroyer No. 9
Launched: 15 March 1924
Completed: 30 August 1924
Renamed: Hatakaze, 1 August 1928
Struck: 10 March 1945
Fate: Sunk by aircraft, 15 January 1945

At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, Hatakaze was part of Destroyer Division 5 under Destroyer Squadron 5 of the IJN 3rd Fleet, and deployed from Mako Guard District in the Pescadores as part of the Japanese invasion force for the Operation M (the invasion of the Philippines), during which time it helped screen landings of Japanese forces at Aparri.

In early 1942, Hatakaze was assigned to escorting troop convoys to Singora, Malaya and French Indochina. Assigned to Operation J (the invasion of Java in the Netherlands East Indies), she participated at the Battle of Sunda Strait on 1 March 1942. During that battle, she launched torpedoes at the cruisers HMAS Perth and USS Houston.

From 10 March 1942 Hatakaze and Destroyer Division 5 were reassigned to the Southwest Area Fleet and escorted troop convoys from Singapore to Penang, and Rangoon. From 5 May, she was reassigned back to the Yokosuka Naval District, where the destroyer served as a guard ship in Tokyo Bay until September. On 25 September, she escorted the aircraft carrier Unyō from Kure Naval Arsenal to Truk, and from there she escorted convoys on to Rabaul and back to Palau, returning to Yokosuka on 24 November to resume her duties as a guard ship.

However, on 2 March 1943, Hatakaze suffered an accidental explosion, which caused heavy damage to her stern. After repairs were completed, from October to December 1944, Hatakaze escorted convoys from Yokosuka to the Ogasawara Islands. In December, Hatakaze was reassigned to the IJN 5th Fleet, and on 25 December directly to the Combined Fleet.

At the end of December 1944, Hatakaze escorted a convoy from Moji, Kyūshū to Takao. While at Takao on 15 January, Hatakaze was sunk in an air raid by Task Force 38 carrier aircraft from USS Ticonderoga at coordinates 22°40′N 120°14′E. Hatakaze was struck from the Navy List on 10 March 1945.

Hatsuraki

Description: The Chidori-class torpedo boat (千鳥型水雷艇 Chidori-gata suiraitei) was an Imperial Japanese Navy class of torpedo boats that served during the Second World War. They proved to have too much armament for the hull and Tomozuru (友鶴) capsized shortly after completion in heavy weather. The entire class had to be rebuilt before they became satisfactory sea-boats. They saw service in the Battle of the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies campaign as escorts and continued in that role for the rest of the war. Three were sunk during the war and the fourth was seized by the British at Hong Kong after the end of the war where it was scrapped later.

Ship Builder Laid down Launched Completed Improved Fate
Hatsukari (初雁) Fujinagata Shipbuilding Yard 06-04-1933 19-12-1933 15-07-1934 Captured by United Kingdom at the end of war. Decommissioned 03-05-1947, scrapped 1948.

Hatsushimo 1945

Description: Hatsushimo (初霜 ”First Frost”) was the fourth of six Hatsuharu-class destroyers, built for the Imperial Japanese Navy under the Circle One Program (Maru Ichi Keikaku).

Builder: Uraga Dock Company
Laid down: 31 January 1933
Launched: 4 November 1933
Commissioned: 27 September 1934
Struck: 30 September 1945
Fate: Mined and run aground, 30 July 1945. Broken up 1948-1949

In February 1945 Hatsushimo escorted the battleships Ise and Hyūga from Singapore back to Kure during Operation Kita. While at Kure, yet more 25-mm anti-aircraft guns were installed. In April 1945, Hatsushimo was part of the escort for the battleship Yamato during her final Operation Ten-Go. She was not hit during the mission, and rescued survivors from Yamato, Yahagi and Hamakaze.

She was subsequently reassigned to Maizuru for use as a training and guard vessels. On 30 July 1945, Hatsushimo struck an air dropped naval mine while under attack from United States Navy aircraft from TF38 at Miyazu Bay, forcing her crew to beach her at 35°33′N 135°12′E. The attack killed 17 crewmen. Hatsushimo was the 129th and last destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy to be lost during the war.
Japanese destroyer Hatsushimo in 1947

On 30 September 1945, Hatsushimo was removed from the navy list. Her wreck was salvaged and broken up between 1948 and 1949.

Hatsushimo Kikusui Operation

Hatsuyuki

Description: Hatsuyuki (初雪 "First Snow") was the third of twenty-four Fubuki-class destroyers[1] built for the Imperial Japanese Navy following World War I.

Builder: Maizuru Naval Arsenal, Japan
Yard number: Destroyer No.37
Laid down: 12 April 1927
Launched: 29 September 1928
Commissioned: 30 March 1929
Struck: 5 October 1943
Fate: Sunk in air raid, 17 July 1943

In January 1943, Hatsuyuki escorted a troop convoy from Pusan to Palau and on to Wewak. She continued to patrol and escort in the Solomon Islands until the end of February, when she was reassigned to the IJN 8th Fleet. In March, Hatsuyuki assisted the survivors of the Battle of Bismarck Sea, before returning to Kure for refit. In May, she escorted aircraft carrier Taiyō from Yokosuka to Manila, Surabaya, Singapore, and back to Mako Guard District to Sasebo Naval District. In June, Hatsuyuki returned to Rabaul, and resumed "Tokyo Express" missions. In the Battle of Kula Gulf off of Kolombangara on 5 July, Hatsuyuki engaged a group of American cruisers and destroyers, and was hit by six dud shells, which damaged her steering and killed six crewmen.

On 17 July 1943, while docked at Shortlands unloading passengers at position 06°50′S 155°47′ECoordinates: 06°50′S 155°47′E, Hatsuyuki was attacked in an air strike by USAAF aircraft. A bomb exploded the after magazine, sinking her in shallow water, with 120 dead (including 38 passengers) and 36 wounded.

On 5 October 1943, Hatsuyuki was removed from the navy list.

Hatsuyuki

Hayashimo

Description: Hayashimo (早霜, "Early Frost") was a Yūgumo-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

Builder: Maizuru Naval Arsenal
Laid down: 20 October 1943
Completed: 20 February 1944
Struck: 10 January 1945
Fate: Sunk in action, 26 October 1944

During the Battle of the Philippine Sea Hayashimo was assigned to Force B. In the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Hayashimo escorted the 1st Diversion Attack Force commanded by Admiral Kurita Takeo. She was damaged on 25 October 1944 during air attacks in the Battle off Samar. Falling behind the withdrawing fleet, she was escorted toward Coron by the destroyer Akishimo until 26 October, when the latter was ordered to rejoin the fleet. Hayashimo lost her bow to a torpedo in renewed air attacks on 26 October. She was grounded and sank in shallow water off Semirara Island, 40 miles (64 km) southeast of Mindoro (12°50′N 121°21′E). Salvage attempts and sporadic air attacks continued through 12 November, when the last of the crew finally abandoned ship.

Hayate

Description: The Japanese destroyer Hayate (疾風 Gale) was one of nine Kamikaze-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN).

Builder: Ishikawajima Shipyards, Tokyo
Laid down: 11 November 1922 as Destroyer No. 13
Launched: 24 March 1925
Completed: 21 December 1925
Renamed: Hayate, 1 August 1928
Fate: Sunk by American coast-defense guns, 11 December 1941

At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, Hayate was assigned to Destroyer Division 29 under Destroyer Squadron 6 of the 4th Fleet. She sortied from Kwajalein on 8 December as part of the Wake Island invasion force. This consisted of the light cruisers Yūbari, Tenryū, and Tatsuta, the destroyers Yayoi, Kisaragi, Mutsuki, Hayate, Oite, and Asanagi, two old Momi-class vessels converted to patrol boats (Patrol Boat No. 32 and Patrol Boat No. 33), and two troop transports containing 450 Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces (SNLF) troops.

The Japanese approached the island early on the morning of 11 December, and the warships began to bombard the island at a range of 8,200 meters (9,000 yd) at 05:30. As none of the six 5-inch (12.7 cm) coast-defense guns replied, Rear Admiral Sadamichi Kajioka, commander of the invasion forces, ordered his ships to close the island, believing that the American guns had been destroyed by the earlier aerial attacks. Encouraging this, Major James Devereux, commander of the United States Marine garrison, had ordered his men to hold their fire until he gave the order to do so. After the Japanese ships had closed to a range of 4,100 meters (4,500 yd), he ordered his guns to open fire. Battery L, based on Peale Islet, engaged their closest target, Hayate, and hit her on the third salvo.[8] After a large explosion aft, she broke in half and sank within two minutes at coordinates 19°16′N 166°37′E, two miles (3.2 km) southwest of Wake. The location of the explosion makes it probable that the shells struck one of the aft torpedo mounts, or, less likely, the depth charges on the stern. Only one man from the 169 men aboard was rescued. She was the first warship lost by the Japanese during the war. The quick loss of Hayate and the near misses around his flagship, Yubari, caused Kajioka to order his forces to disengage.

Hiburi & Shonan

Description: The Hiburi-class escort ship (日振型海防艦, Hiburi-gata Kaibōkan) was a sub class of the Mikura-class escort ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), serving during and after World War II.

In 1943, the Japanese Navy General Staff (Gunreibu) promoted the building of Escort ship Type-A, the Etorofu class and Escort ship Type-B, the Mikura class. However, the Navy General Staff also noted that too many man-hours of work were needed for their building.

Design

The Navy Technical Department (Kampon) used the Ukuru's basic designs for the new drawings. It was a chimera of Mikura and Ukuru classes.
The new drawings had the following characteristic.
Armaments and under waterline designs were same as Mikura.
Everything else was same as in the Ukuru.
The Kampon estimated man-hours for building will be between 42,000 to 40,000.
The new drawing was sent to the Hitachi Zōsen Corporation, Sakurajima Shipyard. The Mikura class and the Ukuru class that had not been started were converted to the Hiburi class. The Hitachi Zōsen build all of the Hiburi class vessels.

Ship # Ship Laid down Launched Completed Fate
328 Hiburi (日振) 03-01-1944 10-04-1944 27-06-1944 Sunk by USS Harder at west of Manila, 22-08-1944.

339 Shōnan (昭南) 23-02-1944 24-06-1944 13-07-1944 Sunk by USS Hoe at south of Hainan Island, 25-02-1945.

Hōkoku Maru

Description: The Hōkoku Maru-class ocean liner (報國丸型貨客船, Hōkoku Maru-gata Kakyakusen) was a class of ocean liners of Japan, serving during 1940 and World War II.

17 May 1937, the Ōsaka Mercantile Steamship Co.Ltd. (大阪商船, Ōsaka Shōsen Kaisha, O.S.K. Lines) placed an order for three ocean liners to reinforce the Japan-Africa route. They were named Hōkoku Maru, Aikoku Maru and Kōkoku Maru (later renamed Gokoku Maru).
They were beautiful, and luxuriously equipped. Their suites were named after ancient Japanese cities.
Hōkoku Maru was completed on 15 June 1940. Her maiden voyage was 2–12 July 1940, Yokohama-Dalian. On 17 July 1940, she departed to South America on her only overseas voyage. After this she stayed close to the Japanese mainland, as the Japanese Navy (IJN) feared losing her.

Builders: Tama Shipyards
Operators: Flag of Japan.svg O.S.K. Lines
Laid down 18 August 1938
Launched 5 July 1939
Completed 15 June 1940
She was enlisted by the navy on 20 September 1941.
Fate: Sunk by HMIS Bengal and armed tanker Ondina at southwest of Cocos 20°00′S 93°00′E on 11 November 1942.

I-13 & I-14

Description: The Japanese submarine I-13 was an Type AM submarine built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II.

Laid down: 4 February 1943
Launched: 30 November 1943
Commissioned: 16 December 1944
In service: 1945
Fate: Sunk, 16 July 1945

The submarine was built at the Kawasaki shipyard in Kobe. I-13 was lost in the Pacific at some point after 11 July 1945, the date of her departure from Japan for Truk. It is possible she was sunk during an anti-submarine warfare operation on 16 July 1945 by aircraft from the escort carrier Anzio and the destroyer escort Lawrence C Taylor.

The Japanese submarine I-14 was a Type AM submarine built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II.

Laid down: May 18, 1943
Launched: March 14, 1944
Commissioned: March 14, 1945
In service: 1945
Fate: Sunk as target off Hawaiian Islands, 28 May 1946.

I-14 surrendered at sea at the end of the war. It was one of five subs that were brought to Hawaii at war's end, then sunk off Oahu after U.S. technicians had studied their secrets.[5] It was located in 2009 by a group from the Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

I-19 & Maruyu Set

Description: The Type 3 submergence transport vehicle (三式潜航輸送艇 San-Shiki Senkō Yusōtei) was a class of transport submarines built for the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during the Second World War. The IJA planned to build over 400 boats, however only 38 boats were completed until the end of war. The IJA called them Maru Yu (マルゆ).

In 1943 the IJA decided to build a transport submarine for themselves, because the IJA was soundly beaten in the Solomon Islands campaign and needed a way to supply the isolated garrisons on the Pacific islands.

I-19 was a Japanese Type B1 submarine which damaged and destroyed several enemy ships during World War II while serving in the Imperial Japanese Navy. During the Guadalcanal Campaign, with a single torpedo salvo, the submarine sank the aircraft carrier USS Wasp and the destroyer USS O'Brien, and damaged the battleship USS North Carolina.
From November, 1942, until February, 1943, I-19 assisted with the nocturnal supply and reinforcement deliveries, and later, evacuations for Japanese forces on Guadalcanal. These missions were labeled the "Tokyo Express" by Allied forces.

On November 25, 1943, at 20:49, 50 nautical miles (93 km) west of Makin Island, destroyer USS Radford detected I-19 on the surface with radar. After I-19 submerged, Radford attacked her with depth charges. I-19 was lost with all hands in this attack.

Builder: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Kobe
Laid down: March 1938
Launched: September 16, 1939
Completed: April 28, 1941
Struck: April 1, 1944
Fate: Depth charged and sunk November 25, 1943 by USS Radford.

Boat No. Boat Builder Laid down Launched Completed Results Fate
376 I-46
(Latter batch) Sasebo Naval Arsenal 21-11-1942 03-06-1943 29-02-1944 Probably lost in an accident or sunk by enemy attack east of Leyte Gulf, after 26-10-1944.

Ikazuchi 1944

Description: Ikazuchi (雷 "Thunder") was the twenty-third Fubuki-class destroyer, or the third Akatsuki class (if that sub-class is regarded as a separate class), built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the inter-war period. When introduced into service, these ships were the most powerful destroyers in the world.

Builder: Uraga Dock Company
Laid down: 7 March 1930
Launched: 22 October 1931
Commissioned: 15 August 1932
Struck: 10 June 1944

Under the command of Lieutenant Commander Ikunaga Kunio, on 13 April 1944, while escorting the transport Sanyō Maru to Woleai, Ikazuchi was torpedoed and sunk by the submarine USS Harder, approximately 200 miles (320 km) south-southeast of Guam at position 10°13′N 143°51′ECoordinates: 10°13′N 143°51′E. There were no survivors.

On 10 June 1944, Ikazuchi was removed from the navy list.

Inazuma 1941/Hibiki 1945

Description: Chantier naval Fujinagata, Osaka
Commandé 1923
Quille posée 7 mars 1930
Lancement 25 février 1932
Commission 15 novembre 1932
Statut Coulé le 14 mai 1944

Peu après sa mise en service le 9 juin 1934, l'Inazuma est entré en collision avec le destroyer Miyuki le 29 juin 1934 lors de manœuvres au large de l'île de Cheju. La collision coula le Miyuki et arracha la proue de l'Inazuma, qui fut remorqué jusqu'à l'arsenal naval de Sasebo par le croiseur lourd Nachi pour y être réparé.

En février 1944, l'Inazuma est réaffecté à la flotte combinée et, à partir de mars, sert principalement d'escorte pour le porte-avions Chiyoda lors de diverses missions à Palau.

Alors qu'il escortait un convoi de Manille vers Balikpapan le 14 mai 1944, l'Inazuma explosa après avoir été touché par des torpilles lancées par l'USS Bonefish (en) en mer des Célèbes, près de Tawi-Tawi, à la position 5° 08′ N, 119° 38′ E. Son navire jumeau Hibiki secourt 125 survivants; son capitaine, le commandant Tokiwa, fait partie des disparus.

Le destroyer est rayé des listes de la marine le 10 juin 1944.

Irako 1944

Description: Irako (伊良湖) was a Japanese food supply ship, serving during the Second World War. Constructed for the transport of food-stuffs, the Irako was eventually commissioned for other roles, including troop transport, munitions transport, and Pacific survey missions. Serving throughout the entirety of the Second World War, the Irako was eventually salvaged for metal, and used for public housing projects in Japan. The crew of the Irako is honored, along with many other seamen, in Tokyo, Japan. The ship was named for Cape Irago, at the tip of Atsumi Peninsula in Aichi prefecture.

Ship # Ship Builder Laid down Launched Completed
74 Irako (伊良湖) Kawasaki, Kōbe Shipyard 30 May 1940 14 February 1941 5 December 1941

On 22 September 1944, she headed toward Coron Bay, only to be damaged during an air raid by aircraft of Task Force 38 at 11°59′N 120°02′E and scuttled on 24 September. She was decommissioned on 30 November 1945.

Ise 1944

Description: Ise (伊勢（戦艦） Ise (senkan)), was the lead ship of the two-vessel Ise-class battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy, which saw combat service during the Pacific War. Ise was named after Ise Province, one of the traditional provinces of Japan, now part of Mie Prefecture.

Name: Ise
Namesake: Ise Province
Ordered: 11 April 1913
Builder: Kawasaki, Kobe, Japan
Laid down: 10 May 1915
Launched: 12 November 1916
Completed: 15 December 1917
Out of service: 1945
Struck: 28 July 1945
Fate: Sunk by air attack, 28 July 1945
Status: Scrapped in place by 1947

To partially compensate for the loss of carrier strength at the Battle of Midway, Navy Aircraft Department began plans to convert the Ise-class battleships to full-sized aircraft carriers each carrying 54 planes. This concept was abandoned due to lack of time and resources and a hybrid battleship/carrier concept was adopted.

From 25 February 1945 until the surrender of Japan, Ise remained docked at Kure, without fuel or aircraft, and repainted in a camouflage olive green with splotches. The camouflage was not effective against USN Task Force 58 carrier-based aircraft on 19 March 1945, when more than 240 aircraft attacked Kure and Ise was hit by two bombs. Re-designated as a fourth-class reserve ship on 20 April, Ise was towed to Ondo Seto (between Kure and Kurahashijima) to serve as a floating anti-aircraft battery. She was attacked again on 24 July by 60 carrier-based aircraft, whose bombs hit the starboard bow, flight deck, main deck, No. 3 turret and bridge, killing Captain Mutaguchi, other bridge officers and around 50 crewmen. On 28 July, in another attack on Ise, she was struck by five 450 kg (1,000 lb) bombs dropped by F4U Corsairs from USS Hancock, and eleven more bombs dropped by other aircraft from TF 58. Ise listed starboard and sank in shallow water at 34°15′N 132°31′E. She was removed from the Navy list on 20 November 1945.

Ise's underwater hulk section was for some time left where it was and she was scrapped without being raised by the Kure Dockyard of the Harima Zosen Yard from 9 October 1946 – 4 July 1947.

Ishigaki 1941

Description: The Shimushu-class escort ships (占守型海防艦 Shimushu-gata kaibōkan) were a quartet of ships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy just prior to World War II.

The Japanese called these ships Kaibōkan, "ocean defence ships", (Kai = sea, ocean, Bo = defence, Kan = ship), to denote a multi-purpose vessel. They were initially intended for patrol and fishery protection, minesweeping and as convoy escorts. The ships measured 77.72 meters (255 ft 0 in) overall, with a beam of 9.1 meters (29 ft 10 in) and a draft of 3.05 meters (10 ft 0 in).[1] They displaced 870 metric tons (860 long tons) at standard load and 1,040 metric tons (1,020 long tons) at deep load. The ships had two diesel engines, each driving one propeller shaft, which were rated at a total of 4,200 brake horsepower (3,100 kW) for a speed of 19.7 knots (36.5 km/h; 22.7 mph). The ships had a range of 8,000 nautical miles (15,000 km; 9,200 mi) at a speed of 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph).[2]

The main armament of the Shimushu class consisted of three Type 3 120-millimeter (4.7 in) guns in single mounts, one superfiring pair aft and one mount forward of the superstructure. They were built with four Type 96 25-millimeter (1.0 in) anti-aircraft guns in two twin-gun mounts, but the total was increased to 15 guns by August 1943. A dozen depth charges were stowed aboard initially, but this was doubled in May 1942 when their minesweeping gear was removed.[2] The anti-submarine weaponry later rose to 60 depth charges with a Type 97 81-millimeter (3.2 in) trench mortar and six depth charge throwers.
Construction and career
USS S-44 which was sunk by Ishigaki

Based in the Kuriles, she patrolled and escorted convoys and ships there. On 7 October 1943, Ishigaki sank the submarine USS S-44. S-44 discovered a target on her radar[3] that she took to be a lone small freighter.[4] S-44 opened fire with her 4-inch deck gun on the refrigerator ship Koko Maru. Ishigaki, Koko Maru's escort, sighted the submarine at 3,300 yards (3,000 m) and opened fire with her bow 4.7-inch gun. Captain Francis Brown of S-44 ordered a crash dive, but Ishigaki scored her first hit on S-44's conning tower before she could submerge. S-44 attempted to fight back with her deck gun, but her gunners were blinded by Ishigaki's 75-centimeter (30 in) searchlight and she scored no hits. Ishigaki then scored her second hit on the submarine's battery section. She then turned and all three 4.7-inch guns began firing at S-44. Soon, she scored several more hits on S-44 which began to sink. Perhaps as many as eight men had made it off the submarine; but only Chief Torpedoman's Mate Ernest A. Duva and Radioman Third Class William F. Whitemore were picked up by Ishigaki, so Ishigaki's captain could claim his success.[4]

On 31 May 1944, Ishigaki was torpedoed by the submarine USS Herring, and her bow was destroyed. She managed to drop several depth charges before sinking with a loss of 167 sailors.

Name: Ishigaki
Laid down: 15 August 1939
Launched: 14 September 1940
Commissioned: 15 February 1941
Struck: 10 July 1944
Fate: Torpedoed by USS Herring, 31 May 1944

Kamoi 1942

Description: Kamoi (神威 "Divine Authority") was an oiler/seaplane tender/flying boat tender of the Imperial Japanese Navy, serving from the 1920s through World War II. She was initially planned in 1920 as one of six of the oilers under the Eight-eight fleet final plan.

Kamoi was completed 12 September 1922, and classified as a special service ship (Oiler). On 27 September she sailed to Yokosuka, from where she sailed to the Japanese mainland and back no fewer than 25 times.

Somewhere around the end of 1932, she was converted to seaplane tender for January 28 Incident at Uraga Dock Company, an overhaul that was finished in February 1933. Upon completion of this evolution, she was assigned to the Combined Fleet.

On 1 June 1934, Kamoi was reclassified as a warship (seaplane tender). On 1 June 1936, she was assigned to the Third Carrier Division. While on this assignment, during July 1937, she was assigned to search for downed American aviator Amelia Earhart. However, the order was cancelled before Kamoi could start searching.[1]

In 1939, the ship was once again overhauled, and flying boat tending facilities were added. On 15 November 1940, Kamoi was reassigned to the 24th Air Flotilla. On 1 December 1941, the 24th Air Flotilla was assigned to the 4th Fleet.

In January 1942, she provided support to the Rabaul and Kavieng invasions. On 1 April 1942, the 24th Air Flotilla was assigned to the 11th Air Fleet. On 1 April 1943, she was assigned to the 3rd Southern Expeditionary Fleet, Southwest Area Fleet. On 28 January 1944, Kamoi sustained heavy damaged in an attack by the submarine USS Bowfin off Makassar. During the resulting repairs at Singapore, her aviation facilities were removed. As such, she was reclassified as a special service ship (oiler) on 15 April 1944. Repairs were completed on 29 August. On 24 September, she was slightly damaged by aircraft of Task Force 38 at Coron Bay. Three days later, she sustained heavy damage in an attack by a United States Navy submarine outside Manila Bay. At some unspecified point afterward, she went into repairs at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal. Repairs were completed on 31 December, at which point she joined the Hi-87 convoy from Moji to Singapore. On 16 January 1945, she was heavily damaged in an air raid on Hong Kong. She was separated from the convoy at this time. On 5 April 1945, with repairs still incomplete, she was once again damaged by air raid, later sinking in shallow water. Kamoi was decommissioned on 3 May 1947.

Kamoi was scrapped by the British force, but it is unclear for details.

Kashii

Description: Kashii (香椎練習巡洋艦 Kashii renshūjunyōkan) was the third and final vessel completed of the three light cruisers in the Katori class, which served with the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II. The ship was named after a noted Shinto shrine in Fukuoka, Japan.

Kashii was completed by Mitsubishi shipyards in Yokohama on 15 July 1941, and was initially assigned to Sasebo Naval Base.

On 12 January 1945, shortly after departing Qui Nhon Bay, Indochina, bombers from the U.S Task Force 38 comprising the aircraft carriers Lexington, Hornet, Hancock, Essex, Ticonderoga, Langley and San Jacinto attacked convoy HI-86 during the South China Sea raid, sinking most of the convoy's ships. Kashii was hit starboard amidships by a torpedo from a Grumman TBF Avenger, then a Curtiss SB2C Helldiver struck with two bombs aft, setting off the depth charge magazine. Kashii sank stern first at 13°50′N 109°20′E. Of Kashii's crew, 621 men went down with the ship and only 19 were rescued.

Kashii was removed from the Navy list on 20 March 1945.

Kashino 1942

Description: Kashino (樫野) was a ammunition ship operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy from 1940 until she was sunk by a United States Navy submarine in 1942. She was built to carry the Yamato-class battleship's main battery from the Kure Naval Arsenal to the shipyards where the battleships were being constructed. When the ships were completed, Kashino was converted to carry ammunition and other supplies.

Kashino was specifically designed and constructed to transport the Yamato-class battleships' 46 cm (18.1 in) guns and turrets from Kure Naval Arsenal to the other shipyards where the battleships were being built. While Japan had originally intended to build at least three Yamato-class battleships, it was decided in June 1942 to complete the third ship, Shinano, as an aircraft carrier. As no other battleships were under construction the Navy did not need a ship capable of carrying gun turrets, and Kashino was converted to an ammunition transport by covering her holds. When this work was completed she was used to transport ammunition and other supplies until 4 September 1942 when she was torpedoed and sunk by the submarine USS Growler north-east of Formosa at 25°45′N 122°42′E.

Katata & Hozu

Description: Katata (堅田 also Katada) was a river gunboat of the Imperial Japanese Navy, part of the 11th Gunboat Sentai, that operated on the Yangtze River in China during the 1920s, and during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. On 12 December 1944 USAAF aircraft bombed and damaged Katata near Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province at 29°35′N 116°10′E (she was possibly sunk and salvaged). She was towed to Shanghai and stripped of her armament in early 1945 to help bolster the land-based defenses. The hulk was bombed by USAAF P-51 Mustang fighters on 2 April 1945 and remained wrecked to the surrender of Japan. The wreck was given to the Republic of China as war reparations in 1946 and scrapped some time later. She was officially removed from the navy list on 3 May 1947.

Hozu (保津) was a river gunboat of the Imperial Japanese Navy, part of the 11th Gunboat Sentai, that operated on the Yangtze River in China during the 1930s, and during the Second Sino-Japanese War. On August 13, 1937 Hozu and other IJN ships bombarded Chinese positions at Shanghai. On December 13 Hozu and other ships engaged Chinese positions at Xiaguan and attacked Chinese boats and rafts on the Yangtze River. On December 5, 1944 Hozu and the gunboat Hira ran aground near Anking. They were subsequently bombed by Chinese aircraft, Hira was damaged and Hozu was sunk. The wreck was scrapped 1945

Kiji

Description: La classe Ōtori (鴻型水雷艇, Ōtori-gata suiraitei) est une classe de torpilleurs de la Marine impériale japonaise construite entre 1934-37 et ayant servi durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
Nom Chantier naval Lancement Service Fin de carrière
Kiji Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Tamano 26 janvier 1937 31 juillet 1937 Cédé à Union soviétique (1947-1957)

Initial Command Structure:
Assigned to 11th Torpedo Boat Division, Third China Expeditionary Fleet.

8-30 December 1941:
With Hong Kong attack force, then area patrol/escort duties.

20 January 1943:
Reassigned to 24th Special Base Force, 2nd Southern Expeditionary Fleet, Southwest Area Fleet.

14 April:
Minor damage: in air attack, during transport run to Saumlaki.

28 April-7 May:
At Surabaya for repairs.

10 September 1944:
Departed Surabaya, then personnel transport and convoy escort operations between Surabaya, Makassar and Ambon, through end of war.

August 1945:
Surrendered at Surabaya.

20 February 1946:
Removed from Navy List. Later used as repatriation ship.

3 October 1947:
Turned over to the Soviet Union.

Kimikawa Maru

Description: Kimikawa Maru was a seaplane tender of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The ship was built by the Kawasaki Dockyard Co. at Kobe as a cargo ship for a civilian ship company. In July 1941 the ship was taken over by the IJN and converted into an auxiliary seaplane tender. She was able to operate 6 Aichi E13A "Jake" floatplanes. On 23 October 1944 she was sunk by USS Sawfish at 18°58′S 118°40′E.

Name Builder Laid down Launched
Kimikawa Maru (君川丸?) Kawasaki, Kōbe Shipyard 2 November 1936 11 March 1937
Completed Owner
15 July 1937 Kawasaki Line

Career (extract), fate
Date Contents
6 July 1941 Enlisted by the Navy.
25 July 1941 Classified to Auxiliary seaplane tender.
1 September 1941 Assigned to the 5th Fleet.
10 December 1941 Assigned to the 21st Division, 5th Fleet.
1 September 1941 Removed from 21st Division.
8 June 1942 Sortie for the Operation AL.
1 October 1943 Classified to Auxiliary transport and assigned to the Northeast Area Fleet.
20 November 1943 Assigned to the Combined Fleet.
13 July 1944 Entry to the Hi-69 Convoy.
2 October 1944 Entry to the Hi-76 Convoy.
21 October 1944 Entry to the Mata-30 Convoy.
23 October 1944 Sunk by USS Sawfish at WNW of Cape Bojeador 18°58′S 118°40′E.
10 December 1944 Removed from naval ship list and discharged.

Kirishima 1941

Description: Kirishima
Builder: Mitsubishi Shipyard of Mitsubishi Goshi Kaisha
Laid down: 17 March 1912
Launched: 1 December 1913
Commissioned: 19 April 1915
Fate: Sank following the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal on 15 November 1942

Durant la guerre sino-japonaise, il sert en tant que navire de soutien et de transport de troupes vers la Chine continentale. À la veille de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il est affecté à la flotte d'escorte des six porte-avions qui ont attaqué Pearl Harbor le 7 décembre 1941 sous les ordres de l'amiral Chūichi Nagumo.

En avril 1942, il reçoit un nouveau commandant, Iwabuchi Sanji. Faisant partie de la 3e division de cuirassés, il fournit une escorte aux transporteurs de troupes de Nagumo lors de la bataille de Midway, avant d'être redéployé dans les îles Salomon au cours de la bataille navale de Guadalcanal. Dans la nuit du 14 au 15 novembre 1942, il est endommagé par le cuirassé américain USS South Dakota (BB-57) puis sévèrement touché par l'USS Washington (BB-56). Il est sabordé dans la matinée du 15 novembre après avoir chaviré.

Kishinami

Description: Le Kishinami (岸波) était un destroyer de classe Yūgumo en service dans la Marine impériale japonaise pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

Le Kishinami prend part au naufrage du sous-marin USS Trout le 29 février 1944. Lors de la bataille de la mer des Philippines, il est assigné à la Force Van. Lors de la bataille du golfe de Leyte, le navire est affecté à la 1re force d'attaque de diversion. Durant l'affrontement, il sauve les survivants du croiseur Atago, dont l'amiral Takeo Kurita. Le destroyer subit des dégâts mineurs par mitraillage les 24 et 25 octobre. Après un échouage sur un récif le 28 octobre au large de Brunei, sa vitesse maximale est réduite à 12 nœuds (22 km / h). Le navire fut réparé à Singapour à la mi-novembre.

Le 2 décembre 1944, le Kishinami quitte Manille, où il escorte le Hakko Maru à Singapour. Le 4 décembre, il est torpillé et coulé par le sous-marin USS Flasher à l'ouest de l'île de Palawan, à la position géographique 13° 12′ N, 116° 37′ E. 86 membres d'équipage sont tués (dont le commandant Mifune) et 150 sont sauvés par les Yurishima et CD-17.

Il est rayé des listes de la marine le 10 janvier 1945.

Kitakami (High-Speed Transport)

Description: Le Kitakami (北上) était un croiseur léger de classe Kuma en service dans la Marine impériale japonaise. Le navire est baptisé sous le nom de la rivière Kitakami, située dans la préfecture d'Iwate, au Japon.

Constructeur Arsenal naval de Sasebo
Chantier naval Préfecture de Nagasaki
Commandé 1917
Quille posée 1er septembre 1919
Lancement 3 juillet 1920
Mise en service 15 avril 1921
Statut Ferraillé le 10 août 1946

En août et septembre 1942, à Kure puis à Yokosuka, les Kitakami et Ōi sont convertis en transports rapides. Les dix tubes lance-torpilles quadruples sont réduits à six et ils sont équipés de deux barges de débarquement Daihatsu et de rails de lancement, et deux montages triples de 25 mm Type 96 sont ajoutés.
À partir du 14 août 1944, le Kitakami est réparé et modifié à l'arsenal naval de Sasebo, reconstruit en transport de kaiten, perdant une partie de ses machines, remplacées par une soute. On lui adapte une grue et un atelier pour ces torpille pilotées, dont il peut emporter 8 unités.

Kiyokawa Maru

Description: Kiyokawa Maru (聖川丸) was a seaplane tender in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). The ship was built at Kawasaki's Kōbe Shipyard and launched on 13 December 1936 as a merchant vessel for the Kawasaki Kisen K. K. Line. Kyokawa Maru was involved in a collision with the small train ferry Uko Maru No. 1 on 19 August 1937 in the Seto Inland Sea, southwest of Nakanose.

Requisitioned by the IJN on 28 September 1941 and was refitted as a seaplane tender. The ship subsequently saw service in the Pacific Campaign of World War II. Kiyokawa Maru was attacked by aircraft from Task Force 38 on 20 July 1945. Hit by bombs and heavily damaged she was beached off Shida beach north of Kaminoseki, Yamaguchi to avoid sinking.

On 22 November 1945 during heavy weather, Kiyokawa Maru sank. Raised in December 1948, later repaired and put in civilian passenger service. Scrapped 1969.

Kokuyo Maru

Description: The Kawasaki-type oiler (川崎型油槽船, Kawasaki-gata Yusōsen) was a type of oiler of Japan, serving during the 1930s and World War II. They do not have official class name.

Tatekawa Maru class: Second production model. They were built by the same as Tōa Maru class drawings. However, their details were different by steamship company which they placed an order for (example: Nippon Maru removed one dry cargo hold). Narrow sense of the Kawasaki-type tanker was until the Kyūei Maru. Kyūei Maru was equipped surplus stocks of the Argentina Maru machinery.

Subsidy # Name Builder Laid down Launched Completed
106 Kokuyō Maru (国洋丸?) Kawasaki, Kōbe Shipyard 17 June 1938 26 December 1938 16 May 1939
Owner: Kokuyō Line

1939–1940 Sailed for the import oil into Japan, several times.
16 November 1940 Enlisted by the IJN. On 26 December, classified to auxiliary oiler.
15 June 1941 Classified to auxiliary fleet oiler.
15 October 1941 Classified to auxiliary oiler, and assigned to the Combined Fleet.
18 November 1941 Entry to the 1st Air Fleet.
5 May 1944 Assigned to the 1st Mobile Fleet.
30 July 1944 Sunk by USS Bonefish at east of Sandakan 06°07′N 120°00′E.
10 September 1944 Removed from naval ship lists, and discharged.

Kumano

Description: Namesake: Kumano River in Wakayama Prefecture
Builder: Kawasaki Shipyards, Kobe, Japan
Laid down: 4 April 1934
Launched: 15 October 1936
Completed: 31 October 1937
Fate: Sunk, 25 November 1944

Kumano (熊野) was one of four Mogami class of heavy cruisers in the Imperial Japanese Navy, serving in World War II. She was named after the Kumano River Kii Peninsula on the island of Honshu in central Japan. The Mogami-class ships were constructed as "light cruisers" (per the Washington Naval Treaty) with five triple 6.1-inch dual purpose guns. They were exceptionally large for light cruisers, and the barbettes for the main battery were designed for quick refitting with twin 8-inch guns. In 1937 all four ships were "converted" to heavy cruisers in this fashion.[3] Kumano served in numerous combat engagements in the Pacific War, until she was eventually sunk by carrier aircraft from Task Force 38 while she was undergoing repairs at Santa Cruz, Philippines in November, 1944.

While undergoing repairs in Santa Cruz on 25 November, Kumano came under attack by aircraft launched by the carrier USS Ticonderoga. She was hit by five torpedoes and four 500 lb (230 kg) bombs, and at 15:15 she rolled over and sank in about 31 m (102 ft) of water. Of her crew at the time, 497 were lost with the ship and 636 were rescued. She was removed from the navy list on 20 January 1945.

Admiral William "Bull" Halsey reportedly once remarked that "if there was a Japanese ship I could feel sorry for at all, it would be the Kumano".

Mamiya 1944

Description: Builder: Kawasaki Shipbuilding Yard
Laid down: 25 October 1922
Launched: 26 October 1923
Completed: 15 July 1924
Decommissioned: 10 February 1945
Fate: Sunk 21 December 1944

The Mamiya (間宮) was a food supply ship of the Imperial Japanese Navy which was in service from the 1920s to the Second World War. Already old by the outbreak of war, she continued to be part of the navy's operations in the Pacific. On 12 October 1943, she was damaged by the US Navy submarine USS Cero near Chichi-jima, and on 6 May 1944, was again damaged by USS Spearfish in the East China Sea. In both cases she was repaired and returned to service. The food supply ship was torpedoed and damaged in the South China Sea (17°48′N 114°09′E) by USS Sealion ( United States Navy). She was torpedoed again and sunk (17°48′N 114°09′E) on the 21st by USS Sealion.

Matsukaze

Description: The Japanese destroyer Matsukaze (松風 "Pine Wind") was one of nine Kamikaze-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the 1920s. During the Pacific War, she participated in the Philippines Campaign in December 1941 and the Dutch East Indies Campaign in early 1942. She took part in the Battle of Sunda Strait in March before beginning escort duties in Southeast Asia that lasted until mid-1943.

Builder: Maizuru Naval Arsenal
Laid down: 2 December 1922 as Destroyer No. 7
Launched: 30 October 1923
Completed: 5 April 1924
Renamed: Matsukaze, 1 August 1928
Struck: 10 August 1944
Fate: Sunk by USS Swordfish, 9 June 1944

Matsukaze, built at the Maizuru Naval Arsenal, was laid down on 2 December 1922, launched on 30 October 1923 and commissioned on 5 April 1924. Originally commissioned simply as Destroyer No. 7, the ship was assigned the name Matsukaze on 1 August 1928.

Pacific War

At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, Matsukaze was assigned to Destroyer Division 5 of Desron 5 in the IJN 3rd Fleet, and deployed from Mako Guard District in the Pescadores as part of the Japanese invasion force for the Operation M (the invasion of the Philippines), during which time it helped screen landings of Japanese forces at Lingayen Gulf.

In early 1942, Harukaze was assigned to escorting troop convoys from Taiwan to Malaya and French Indochina. Assigned to Operation J (the invasion of Java in the Netherlands East Indies), she participated at the Battle of Sunda Strait on 1 March 1942. During that battle, the ship assisted the destroyer Shiokaze in sinking the Dutch auxiliary minesweeper Endeh

From 10 March 1942 through the end of March 1943, Matsukaze and Destroyer Division 5 were assigned to the Southwest Area Fleet and escorted troop convoy from Singapore to Penang, Rangoon, French Indochina, and Makassar. On 31 March Matsukaze returned to Yokosuka Naval Arsenal for refit.[9]

From June 1943, Matsukaze was reassigned to the IJN 8th Fleet and sent to Rabaul at the end of June. From June through September, she made several "Tokyo Express" troop transport runs to Kolombangara and participated in the evacuation of Japanese forces from Vella Lavella in October. At the end of October, Matsukaze returned to Yokosuka for repairs.

On 9 December 1944, Matsukaze returned to Rabaul and continued to make numerous "Tokyo Express" runs throughout the Solomon Islands, especially to New Britain through the end of January. Matsukaze had the misfortune to be at Truk on 17–18 February 1944 during Operation Hailstorm, when the United States Navy launched a massive and crippling air raid on the Japanese fleet. Matsukaze escaped with medium damage caused by near misses and strafing attacks, and returned to Yokosuka via Saipan and Hahajima by 1 March for repairs.

After repairs were completed by May 1944 Matsukaze was reassigned to Destroyer Division 30 of Desron 3 in the Central Pacific Area Fleet for convoy escort between the Japanese home islands and Saipan. On 9 June 1944, after departing with a convoy from Tateyama, Chiba bound for Saipan, Matsukaze　was torpedoed and sunk 70 miles (110 km) northeast of Chichijima, Ogasawara Islands at coordinates 26°59′N 143°13′E by the submarine USS Swordfish on 25 August 1944. The ship was struck from the Navy List on 10 August 1944.

Minazuki

Description: Name: Minazuki
Namesake: June
Builder: Uraga Dock Company, Uraga
Laid down: 24 March 1925 as Destroyer No. 28
Launched: 25 May 1926
Completed: 22 March 1927
Renamed: As Minazuki, 1 August 1928
Struck: 10 August 1944
Fate: Sunk by USS Harder, 6 June 1944

Minazuki was one of six Mutsuki-class ships reconstructed in 1935–36, with their hulls strengthened, raked caps fitted to the funnels and shields to the torpedo mounts. In 1941–42, most of those ships were converted into fast transports with No. 2 and No. 3 guns removed. In addition, ten license-built 25 mm (1.0 in) Type 96 light AA guns[2] and at least two 13.2 mm (0.5 in) Type 93 anti-aircraft machineguns were installed.[5] The minesweeping gear was replaced by four depth charge throwers and the ships now carried a total of 36 depth charges.

On 6 June 1944, after departing Tawitawi with a tanker convoy to Balikpapan on Borneo, Minazuki was torpedoed by the submarine USS Harder off Tawitawi 04°05′N 119°30′E. The destroyer Wakatsuki rescued 45 survivors, but Minazuki's captain, Lieutenant Kieji Isobe, was not among them. The ship was struck from the Navy List on 10 August 1944.

Minegumo

Description: Minegumo (峯雲 Summit Cloud) was the eighth of ten Asashio-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the mid-1930s.
Builder: Fujinagata Shipyards
Laid down: 22 March 1937
Launched: 4 November 1937
Commissioned: 4 April 1938
Struck: 1 April 1943
Fate: Sunk in Battle of Blackett Strait, 5 March 1943

Repairs completed by 22 February 1943, Minegumo returned with a convoy to Truk. She continued on to Rabaul by 2 March. During another transport run from Rabaul to Kolombangara on 5 March Minegumo and Murasame are believed to have sunk the submarine USS Grampus. However, that same night, Murasame and Minegumo were detected by the American Task Force 68 off Vila, after delivering supplies to the Japanese base there. Both ships were sunk in the subsequent action (later known as the Battle of Blackett Strait) at 08°01′S 157°14′E. On Minegumo, 46 crewmen (including her captain, Lieutenant Commander Yoshitake Uesugi) perished, but 122 survivors later reached Japanese lines, and two were captured by the Americans. Minegumo was removed from the navy list on 1 April 1943.

Minegumo

Miyuki

Description: Miyuki (深雪 ”Deep Snow”) was the fourth of twenty-four Fubuki-class destroyers, built for the Imperial Japanese Navy.

Builder: Uraga Dock Company
Yard number: Destroyer No. 38
Laid down: 30 April 1927
Launched: 26 June 1928
Commissioned: 29 June 1929
Struck: 15 August 1934
Fate: Sunk in collision 29 June 1934

On completion, Miyuki, along with her sister ships, Fubuki, Shirayuki, and Hatsuyuki, were assigned to Destroyer Division 11 under the IJN 2nd Fleet. From October to December 1931, she was at Kure Naval Arsenal for repairs to her boilers.

Miyuki was lost in a collision with the Japanese destroyer Inazuma on 29 June 1934 in the Korea Strait, south of Cheju. (33°00′N 125°30′E) The number of casualties is not certain, but at least five crewmen perished in the accident. Miyuki was struck from the navy list on 15 August 1934.

Miyuki was the only modern Japanese destroyer that did not make it into World War II, and was the only instance a Japanese destroyer was lost in a collision against other Japanese destroyers.

Mizuho

Description: Mizuho (瑞穂) was a seaplane carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. The ship was built at Kawasaki Shipbuilding at Kobe, Japan, and was completed in February 1939.[1][2]

Mizuho was built to a similar design as the seaplane carrier Chitose, but with slightly less powerful diesel engines instead of Chitose's turbines. She carried 24 seaplanes and was equipped to carry twelve miniature submarines, although she could not carry full loads of both at one time. Mizuho participated in invasion support for much of her career.

The American submarine USS Drum torpedoed Mizuho at 23:03 hours on 1 May 1942 40 nautical miles (74 kilometres) off Omaezaki, Japan. She capsized and sank at 04:16 hours on 2 May 1942 with the loss of 101 lives. There were 472 survivors, of which 31 were wounded.

Mogami 1938

Description: Mogami (最上) was the lead ship in the four-vessel Mogami class of heavy cruisers in the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was named after the Mogami River in Tōhoku region of Japan. The Mogami-class ships were constructed as "light cruisers" (per the Washington Naval Treaty) with five triple 6.1-inch dual purpose guns. They were exceptionally large for light cruisers, and the barbettes for the main battery were designed for quick refitting with twin 8-inch guns. In 1937 all four ships were "converted" to heavy cruisers in this fashion.

Name: Mogami
Namesake: Mogami River
Ordered: 1931 Fiscal Year
Builder: Kure Naval Arsenal
Laid down: 27 October 1931
Launched: 14 March 1934
Commissioned: 28 July 1935
Struck: 20 December 1944
Fate: scuttled 25 October 1944 after Battle of the Surigao Strait at 09°40′N 124°50′E

On 20 June 1942, Rear Admiral Shoji Nishimura assumed command of Cruiser Division 7, and Cruiser Division 7 was transferred to the Third Fleet. Mogami returned to Japan, and underwent a major conversion at Sasebo Naval Arsenal from 25 August to an aircraft cruiser to improve the fleet's reconnaissance capabilities. Her No. 4 turret and the damaged No. 5 turret were removed and her aft magazines modified to serve as gasoline tanks and munitions storage. Her aft deck was extended and fitted with a rail system to accommodate the planned stowage of 11 Aichi E16A Zuiun ("Paul") reconnaissance floatplanes. The dual Type 96 25 mm AT/AA Gun and Type 93 13-mm machine guns were replaced by 10 triple mount Type 96s and a Type 21 air-search radar. As the new E16A aircraft were not yet available, three older Mitsubishi F1M2 Type 0 ("Pete") two-seat biplanes and four Aichi E13A1 Type O ("Jake") three-seat reconnaissance floatplanes were embarked. Rebuilding was completed on 30 April 1943, and Mogami was re-commissioned into the First Fleet. .

On 22 May 1943, Mogami collided with oiler Toa Maru in Tokyo Bay and was damaged slightly. On 8 June, while at Hashirajima, Mogami was moored near the battleship Mutsu when the latter exploded and sank. Mogami sent boats to rescue survivors, but they found none.

Mogami 1938

Murasame & Yudashi

Description: Le Murasame (村雨) était un destroyer de classe Shiratsuyu
Chantier naval Fujinagata, Osaka
Commandé 1931
Quille posée 1er février 1934
Lancement 20 juin 1935
Commission 7 janvier 1937
Statut Coulé le 5 mars 1943

Au cours de la Bataille de Midway sur 4 au 6 juin, le Murasame fait partie de la force d'occupation de Midway, commandé par l'Amiral Nobutake Kondô. Au cours de la bataille des Salomon orientales le 24 août, il fait partie de l'escorte du cuirassé Mutsu et durant le mois de septembre, il escorte le transport d'hydravions Kunikawa Maru.

En octobre, il participe à deux "Tokyo Express" à Guadalcanal, où il est légèrement endommagée par un bombardement aérien le 5 octobre. Le même mois, il mène neuf autre "Tokyo Express" à Guadalcanal. Le 25 octobre 1942, il secourt des hommes du Yura, fortement endommagé par des attaques aériennes. Le lendemain, il est présent à la bataille des îles Santa Cruz, sous le commandement l'Amiral de Takeo Kurita.

Au cours de la première bataille navale de Guadalcanal dans la nuit du 12 au 13 novembre 1942, le Murasame participe au naufrage du destroyer USS Monssen, endommage le croiseur USS Helena, et torpille peut-être le croiseur USS Juneau. Au cours de la bataille, il est également touché par un obus dans une de ses chaudières, retournant à Truk pour des réparations. Il patrouille depuis Truk jusqu'à la fin de l'année, puis retourne à Yokosuka en vue de nouvelles réparations à la mi-janvier 1943.En février 1943, le Murasame retourne à Truk en escortant le porte-avions Chūyō, puis mène des opérations de transport entre Rabaul et Kolombangara. Dans la nuit du 4 mars, le Murasame et le Minegumo sont soupçonnés d'avoir coulé le sous-marin USS Grampus. Cependant, cette même nuit, ils sont détectés par les radars des navires américains dans le golfe de Kula, après avoir livrés la cargaison. Au cours de l'action qui s'ensuivit, connu sous le nom de bataille du détroit de Blackett, les deux navires sont envoyés par le fond. Le Murasame est coulé par des torpilles tirées du destroyer USS Waller et du croiseur léger USS Denver, à la position 8° 03′ S, 157° 13′ E. 128 des 181 membres d'équipage décèdent dans cette attaque.

Il est rayé des listes de la marine le 1er avril 1943.

Un monument commémoratif en l'honneur de l'équipage du Murasame est érigé au Kannonzaki, à Yokosuka, au Japon.

Myoko

Description: Myōkō (妙高) was the lead ship of the four-member Myōkō class of heavy cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), which were active in World War II. She was named after Mount Myōkō in Niigata Prefecture.

Builder: Yokosuka Naval Arsenal
Laid down: 25 October 1924
Launched: 16 April 1927
Commissioned: 31 July 1929
Struck: 10 August 1946
Fate: Scuttled in the Strait of Malacca, 8 June 1946

In February 1945, the harbor commander reported that Myōkō was irreparable at Singapore without more materials, and impossible to tow to Japan. He recommended that Myōkō be kept in Singapore as a floating anti-aircraft battery. This suggestion was approved and, although both Myōkō and Takao were targeted by British midget submarine attacks on 26 July, Myōkō survived the war. Myōkō formally surrendered to Royal Navy units on 21 September, and was subsequently towed to the Strait of Malacca and scuttled off at 3°5′N 100°40′ECoordinates: 3°5′N 100°40′E Port Swettenham, Malaya (near present-day Port Klang, Malaysia) near submarines I-501 and I-502.

Nagatsuki

Description: Nagatsuki (長月 ”September”) was one of twelve Mutsuki-class destroyers, built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the 1920s. During the Pacific War, she participated in the Philippines Campaign in December 1941 and the Dutch East Indies Campaign in early 1942. In March, she was assigned to convoy escort duties in and around Malaysia and the Dutch East Indies until she was transferred to Rabaul in early 1943 to ferry troops around New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.

Builder: Ishikawajima Shipyards, Tokyo
Laid down: 16 April 1926 as Destroyer No. 30
Launched: 6 October 1926
Completed: 30 April 1927
Renamed: As Nagatsuki 1 August 1928
Struck: 1 November 1943
Fate: Destroyed, 7 July 1943

At the end of January 1943, Nagatsuki escorted the seaplane tender Kamikawa Maru from Sasebo via Truk and Rabaul to Shortlands, and remained throughout February to cover Operation KE (troop evacuations from Guadalcanal) and to escort convoys to Palau, Wewak and Rabaul. On 25 February, Nagatsuki was reassigned to the IJN 8th Fleet. The ship participated in several Tokyo Express troop transport missions throughout the Solomon Islands through the end of June, especially to Kolombangara and Tuluvu. On 4–5 July, while on a run to Kolombangara, Nagatsuki engaged the US destroyer USS Strong, which she helped sink with her torpedoes.
The destroyed hulk of Nagatsuki on Kolombangara, photographed on 8 May 1944

However, the following day, during the Battle of Kula Gulf, Nagatsuki was holed by a six-inch shot. The ship's captain, Lieutenant Commander Tameo Furukawa, grounded the vessel near Bambari Harbor 08°02′S 157°12′E on Kolombangara to land his troops; however, later, even with the assistance of sister ship Satsuki, it proved impossible to refloat the vessel, and she was attacked and destroyed the following day, 6 July, by Allied aircraft. The crew suffered eight dead and thirteen injured, but the survivors later reached the Imperial Japanese Army base at Vila on Kolombangara on foot. Nagatsuki was struck from the Navy List on 1 October 1943.

Nagatsuki

Naka 1943

Description: Naka (那珂) was a Sendai-class light cruiser in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), named after the Naka River in the Tochigi and Ibaraki prefectures of eastern Japan. Naka was the third (and final) vessel completed in the Sendai class of light cruisers, and like other vessels of her class, she was intended for use as the flagship of a destroyer flotilla.

Laid down: 10 June 1922
Launched: 24 March 1925
Commissioned: 30 November 1925[1]
Struck: 31 March 1944
Fate: sunk 18 February 1944 bombed by USN carrier aircraft near Truk 07°15′N 151°15′E

From 17–18 February 1944, Naka assisted light cruiser Agano, which had been torpedoed the day before by the submarine USS Skate. Immediately after Naka departed, Truk was attacked by US Navy Task Force 58 in Operation Hailstone. The Americans sank 31 transports and 10 naval vessels (two cruisers, four destroyers and four auxiliary vessels), destroyed nearly 200 aircraft and damaged severely about 100 more, eliminating Truk as a major base for the IJN. Naka was attacked 35 nautical miles (65 km) west of Truk by three waves of Curtiss SB2C Helldivers and Grumman TBF Avengers from the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill and TBFs of VT-25 of the carrier Cowpens. The first two strikes failed to score a hit, but Naka was hit by a torpedo and a bomb in the third strike and broke in two, sinking at 07°15′N 151°15′ECoordinates: 07°15′N 151°15′E. Some 240 crewmen perished, but patrol boats rescued 210 men including Captain Sutezawa.

Naka was removed from the navy list on 31 March 1944.

Nisshin

Description: Nisshin (日進) was a seaplane tender (CVS) of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.

She was built at Kure Naval Arsenal from 1938 to 1942 and was equipped with 2 aircraft catapults and facilities for launching, lifting and storing up to 25 floatplanes. Then in 1942 modifications were made for the ship to also carry Type 'A' midget submarines as well as carry and lay 700 naval mines in lieu of half of her aircraft complement.

Builder: Kure Naval Arsenal
Laid down: 2 November 1938
Launched: 30 November 1939
Commissioned: 27 February 1942
Fate: Sunk in combat 22 July 1943

With the start of the large-scale Allied offensive in June 1943 against Japanese-occupied New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, Nisshin rushed troop reinforcements from Yokosuka to Bougainville Island. Loaded with 630 soldiers, 22 light tanks, ammunition and food supplies, she stopped at Truk and on 22 July, escorted by three destroyers, Nisshin attempted to run Bougainville Strait towards Buin. The convoy was attacked at 13：45 hours 40 nautical miles southwest of Buin by three waves of American bombers, including 34 Douglas SBD Dauntless and twelve Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers. Nisshin was able to evade the B-24s, working up to 34 knots, but was hit by four 227-kilogram and two 454-kilogram bombs, dropped by the dive bombers during the second and third strikes, which exploded her aviation fuel stores and which caused many casualties among the crowded soldiers. From 14：05, Nisshin started to capsize toward the starboard foredeck, and sank some fourteen minutes after the start of the air raid. Of the 1263 on board at the time (633 crewmen and 630 embarked troops), only 178 were rescued by the escorting destroyers, their efforts severely hampered by renewed air attacks. On 10 September 1943, Nisshin was struck from the navy list .

Nokaze

Description: Nokaze (野風 "Field　Wind") was the lead ship of the Nokaze sub-class, an improvement to the Minekaze-class 1st class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy following World War I. Advanced for their time, these ships served as first-line destroyers through the 1930s, but were considered obsolescent by the start of the Pacific War.
Builder: Maizuru Naval Arsenal
Laid down: 16 April 1921
Launched: 1 October 1921
Commissioned: 31 March 1922
Struck: 10 April 1945

On 20 February 1945, Nokaze was torpedoed and sunk by the submarine USS Pargo north of Nha Trang, French Indochina in the South China Sea at position 12°48′N 109°38′E. The ship exploded and sank, with 209 killed. Kamikaze rescued 21 survivors, including its captain, Lieutenant Commander Tarō Ebihara. Nokaze was the last of 39 Japanese destroyers to fall victim to United States Navy submarines during the war.

On 10 April 1945 Nokaze was removed from navy list.

Nowaki

Description: Nowaki was laid down on 8 November 1939 and launched on 17 September 1940. The ship was commissioned into the IJN on 28 April 1941.

Returning to the Central Pacific after a trip to Japan, Nowaki took part in the Battle of the Philippine Sea. In the Battle off Samar on 25 October 1944, Nowaki took part in the torpedo attack on the U.S. escort carriers and assisted in sinking the destroyer USS Johnston. Later, she removed survivors from the cruiser Chikuma and scuttled her with torpedoes, although recent studies suggests that she only managed to arrive in time to rescue the survivors, as Chikuma herself had sunk beforehand. After being crippled by gunfire from U.S. cruisers on 26 October, she was finished off by torpedoes from USS Owen, 65 miles (105 km) east-southeast of Legaspi (13°0′N 124°54′E)

Oboro

Description: Oboro (朧 "Moonlight") was the seventeenth of twenty-four Fubuki-class destroyer, built for the Imperial Japanese Navy following World War I. When introduced into service, these ships were the most powerful destroyers in the world. They served as first-line destroyers through the 1930s.

Builder: Sasebo Naval Arsenal
Yard number: Destroyer No. 51
Laid down: 29 November 1929
Launched: 8 November 1930
Commissioned: 31 October 1931

On 11 October 1942, Oboro departed Yokosuka with a re-supply convoy for Kiska in the Japanese-occupied Aleutian Islands. Oboro was sunk on 17 October in an air attack by USAAF B-26 Marauders 30 nautical miles (56 km) northeast of Kiska at position 52°17′N 178°08′E. A direct bomb hit among munitions being carried caused the ship to explode and sink, leaving only 17 survivors, including her captain, Lieutenant Commander Yamana, who were rescued by the destroyer Hatsuharu (also heavily damaged in same attack).

On 15 November 1942, Oboro was removed from the navy list.

Okinoshima

Description: Okinoshima (沖島) was a large minelayer of the Imperial Japanese Navy, which was in service during the early stages of World War II. She was named after the Okinoshima Island in the Sea of Japan and the earlier Japanese battleship Okinoshima. She was the largest purpose-built minelayer of the Imperial Japanese Navy and the first Japanese minelayer to be equipped with a reconnaissance seaplane.

On 10 May 1942, Okinoshima departed Rabaul as part of "Operation RY", the invasion of Nauru and Ocean Island. On 12 May 1942, off New Ireland, she was hit by two or three torpedoes by American submarine USS S-42. Okinoshima was taken under tow by escorting destroyer Mochizuki, but capsized in St. George's Channel, in the Bismarck Sea at position 05°06′S 153°48′E. Most of the crew survived. Okinoshima was removed from the navy list on 25 May 1942.

Oshio

Description: Ōshio (大潮 High Tide) was the second of ten Asashio-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the mid-1930s.
Builder: Maizuru Naval Arsenal
Laid down: 5 August 1936
Launched: 19 April 1937
Commissioned: 31 October 1937
Struck: 1 April 1943
Fate: Sunk 20 February 1943

In early January 1943, Ōshio was sent from Maizuru to Shortland Island, and participated in three missions to evacuate surviving Japanese troops from Guadalcanal in early February. On 20 February, together with her sister ship Arashio, she was attacked by the submarine USS Albacore off Wewak, New Guinea. Ōshio was hit by a torpedo, which flooded her engine room and killed eight crewmen. Arashio attempted to tow her, but her keel was fatally damaged, and she sank approximately 70 nautical miles (130 km) northeast of Manus Island at position 00°50′S 146°06′E. She was removed from the navy list on 1 April 1943.

Otori

Description: The Ōtori-class torpedo boat (鴻型水雷艇 Ōtori-gata suiraitei) were a class of eight 840 ton fast torpedo boats of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The eight ships were ordered in 1934 and were commissioned between 1936 and 1937. Their range of service varied as needs of the war changed, but they were usually in the areas around Hong Kong, Palau, Rabaul, Truk, and Japanese home waters.

Although made for convoy escort duties and home water protection, most of this class participated in the Manila blockade operations early in the war, as well as transport duties in the Rabaul area during the Solomon Islands campaign due to ship losses.
Ships in class
Ship Builder Launched Completed
Ōtori (鴻) Maizuru Naval Arsenal 25 April 1935 10 October 1936

Sunk 12 June 1944 by aircraft of Task Force 58 NW of Saipan.

Oyashio

Description: -New Equipment Set NE05 [1/700 Japanese Navy New Ship Equipment Set 5] included.

Après l'attaque de Pearl Harbor, l'Oyashio rejoint la 15e Division de destroyer de la 2e Flotte et est déployé à Palaos, escortant le porte-avions Ryūjō et le mouilleur de mines Itsukushima pour l'invasion du sud des Philippines.

Début 1942, il participe à l'invasion des Indes orientales néerlandaises, accompagnant les forces d'invasion à forces d'invasion à Manado, Kendari et Ambon en janvier et à Makassar, Timor et Java en février. Le 9 février, il sauve des survivants du Natsushio et le 5 mars participe au naufrage d'un mouilleur de mines de la Royal Navy en compagnie du Kuroshio. Fin mars, il revient à Célèbes, au district naval de Sasebo, en compagnie du Kaga.

Fin avril, l'Oyashio est déployé à partir de Kure comme navire de soutien pour l'occupation de Cagayan. Début mai, il retourne à Kure, qu'il atteint le 17, en compagnie du porte-avions endommagé Shōkaku. Début juin, il est déployé sur Saipan en escortant un convoi de troupes pour la bataille de Midway.

À la mi-juin, il sert de navire d'escorte pour les croiseurs en prévision d'un deuxième raid sur Ceylan, mais l'opération est annulée au moment où le navire atteint Mergui, en Birmanie.

Il sert alors d'escorte pour les croiseurs Kumano et Suzuya entre Balikpapan et les îles Salomon. Au cours de la bataille des Salomon orientales il fait partie de la Force de l'amiral Nobutake Kondō mais il ne participe à aucun combat. Durant le mois de septembre, il patrouille entre Truk et Guadalcanal. En octobre, il effectue des opérations “Tokyo Express” à Guadalcanal. Ces opérations se poursuivent à mi-février 1943. Au cours de la bataille de Santa Cruz, il fait partie de la Force de l'amiral Takeo Kurita. Après la bataille, il revient aux îles Shortland en compagnie des Maya et Suzuya. Au cours de la bataille navale de Guadalcanal du 13 au 15 novembre, l'Oyashio lance une attaque à la torpille contre le cuirassé américain USS Washington. Après la bataille, il revient à Rabaul avec le croiseur Chōkai. Le 21 novembre, il quitte le port pour porter assistance à l'Umikaze. Au cours de la bataille de Tassafaronga le 30 novembre, l'Oyashio torpille le croiseur américain USS Northampton.

Le 9 février, l'Oyashio retourne à Kure en compagnie du transport de troupes Hakozaki Maru pour subir des réparations. Il revient à Truk le 10 avril avec les porte-avions Chūyō et Taiyō. Fin avril, il stationne aux îles Shortland et sert de transport de troupes.

Dans la nuit du 7 au 8 mai 1943, alors qu'il transporte des troupes en compagnie du Kuroshio, le navire touche une mine juste après avoir quitté Kolombangara. Alors que le navire est en perdition, il subit une attaque aérienne qui le coule définitivement à la position géographique 8° 08′ S, 156° 55′ E, emportant 91 hommes. Son sister-ship coula également.

Il est rayé des registres le 20 juin 1943.

Chantier naval Arsenal naval de Maizuru
Quille posée 29 mars 1938
Lancement 29 novembre 1938
Mise en service 20 août 1940
Statut Coulé le 8 mai 1943

Oyashio

Ryuho (Long Flight Deck)

Description: Ryūhō (龍鳳, "Dragon phoenix") was a light aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was converted from the submarine tender Taigei (大鯨, "Great Whale"), which had been used in the Second Sino-Japanese War. One of the least successful of the light aircraft carrier conversions due to its small size, slow speed and weak construction, during World War II, Ryūhō was used primarily as an aircraft transport and for training purposes, although she was also involved in a number of combat missions, including the First Battle of the Philippine Sea.

Name: Taigei
Operator: Imperial Japanese Navy
Builder: Yokosuka Naval Arsenal
Laid down: 12 April 1933
Launched: 16 November 1933
Completed: 31 March 1934
Out of service: 12 December 1941
Renamed: 30 November 1942
Fate: converted to light aircraft carrier
Name: Ryūhō
Namesake: Japanese for Dragon Phoenix
Recommissioned: 30 November 1942
Struck: 30 November 1945
Fate: Scrapped in 1946

Ryūhō was attacked by Task Force 58 aircraft on 19 March near Kure, suffering hits by three 500 lb bombs and two 5.5-inch rockets. The damage was severe: the flight deck bulged upward between the two elevators, the No. 1 boiler was punctured by a bomb fragment, the stern settled two meters into the water, and a raging fire broke out. Twenty crewmen were killed and 30 were wounded. Upon returning to Kure on 1 April, Ryūhō was considered to be a total loss. Moored as an abandoned hulk off of Etajima, she was attacked by USN aircraft again on 24 July and 28 July. She was struck from the navy list on 30 November 1945 and scrapped in 1946.

Ryuho 1944

Sagaramaru

Description: 23 June 1939:
Yokohama. SAGARA MARU is laid down as a cargo liner by Mitsubishi Shipbuilding for the Nihon Yusen Co. (Japanese Mailboat Co.)

23 March 1940:
Launched and named SAGARA MARU.

12 November 1940:
Yokohama. Completed. SAGARA MARU is assigned to NYK's Seattle route.

11 September 1941:
Requisitioned by the Imperial Japanese Navy.

20 September 1941:
SAGARA MARU completes conversion and is attached to the Yokosuka Naval District as a converted seaplane tender. Recalled Captain Kohashi Yoshiaki (37) is the Commanding Officer.

22 June 1943:
Departs Kobe for Yokosuka carrying raw cotton, and a total of 700-tons of sundry goods.

23 June 1943:
(USNA ’30) Off Mikomoto Island, SE of Cape Omae Zaki lighthouse, Honshu. Cdr (MOH posthumously) Samuel D. Dealey’s USS HARDER (SS-257) picks up a large ship on her SJ radar. Dealey makes a submerged approach. At 0350 (JST), while destroyer SAWAKAZE is escorting SAGARA MARU, Dealey attacks. As he closes to 2,500 yards, the SAGARA MARU opens fire on USS HARDER’s periscope. Dealey fires four torpedoes. SAGARA MARU attempts to evade them, but the first torpedo hits between her bow and bridge. SAGARA MARU is damaged severely and begins to drift. SAWAKAZE takes her in tow. Auxiliary netlayers MATSU and TATSU MARUs arrive to assist.

24 June 1943:
1.5 miles SW of Kaketsuka Light. SAGARA MARU is beached to avoid sinking at the estuary of the Tenryu River at 33-45N, 138-10E. Captain Kanda is among the survivors.

4 July 1943:
At 2200, LtCdr Willis M. Thomas' (USNA ’31) USS POMPANO (SS-181), in a night radar attack, torpedoes the beached SAGARA MARU. Thomas fires hits three torpedoes at her and gets two hits.

17 August 1943:
Captain (Ret) Kanda is officially relieved.

1 September 1943:
The hulk of SAGARA MARU is finally abandoned as a total loss.

Removed from the Navy List that same day.

Sagaramaru

Sagiri 1941

Samidare

Description: Samidare (五月雨 ”Early Summer Rain”) was the sixth of ten Shiratsuyu-class destroyers.

Builder: Uraga Dock Company
Laid down: 19 December 1934
Launched: 6 July 1935
Commissioned: 19 January 1937
Struck: 10 October 1944
Fate: Sunk, 26 August 1944

In April 1944, Samidare escorted troop convoys from Japan to Saipan and on the Truk and Palau. On 27 April, she assisted in the rescue of survivors from the torpedoed cruiser Yūbari. In May and early June, Samidare covered troop evacuations from Biak and other locations in the Netherlands East Indies. She participated in the Battle of the Philippine Sea on 19–20 June as part of Admiral Takatsugu Jōjima’s task force. In July, she escorted a troop convoy to Okinawa and to Lingga, returning with Kinu to Palau in August. However, on 18 August, Samidare ran aground on the Velasco Reef near Palau Island at position 08°10′N 134°38′E. On 25 August, she was torpedoed by the submarine USS Batfish. The destroyer broke in two with her stern-section sinking, and the bow-section later destroyed by the Japanese.

San Francisco Maru

Description: propriétaire Yamashista Kisen Line
chantier naval Kawasaki, Kobe
reprise 14 mars 1919
où Coulé par raid aérien le 18 février 1944

Le navire a été construit en mars 1919 par le chantier naval Kawasaki de Kobe , au Japon, comme cargo pour la ligne Yamashista Kisen.

Le navire a été mis en service le 14 mars 1919. Il a été arpenté avec 5 831 tonnes brutes enregistrées, 117 mètres de long et 15,5 mètres de large. Le San Francisco Maru avait deux chaudières à charbon et était alimenté par une seule machine à vapeur construite par Kawasaki . Elle avait un équipage de 40 hommes. Le 30 novembre 1920, le San Francisco Maru se trouvait à Fremantle, en Australie occidentale, au port de Perth . En 1922, elle a été reconstruite en un navire à propulsion pétrolière.

Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale , le navire a été réquisitionné par la marine impériale japonaise et utilisé dans le département des transports navals pour l'équipement et les munitions. En mai 1943, il a été endommagé par un raid aérien allié sur Wewak, Nouvelle-Guinée .

Il est arrivé à Chuuk le 5 février 1944 dans un convoi. Le 12 février 1944, le convoi a continué, mais le San Francisco Maru est resté sur le site, car la cargaison n'avait pas encore été dégagée. Les 16 et 17 février, elle a été attaquée par des bombardiers de l' Essex et de Yorktown et frappée dans l'épisode de six bombes de 500 kg. Le navire a pris feu et a coulé en avant.

4 February 1944:
The convoy arrives at Truk.

17 February 1944: American Operation "Hailstone" - The Attack on Truk:
Beginning at dawn, Vice Admiral (later Admiral) Marc A. Mitscher’s (USNA ’10) Task Force 58's five fleet carriers and four light carriers, supported by six battleships, ten cruisers and 28 destroyers, launch air attacks on airfields, shore installations and ships in the lagoon. Mitscher launches 30 strikes of at least 150 aircraft each. The strikes are launched about every hour.

SE of Dublon Island, Truk. SAN FRANCISCO MARU is anchored at the 4th Fleet anchorage when she is attacked and damaged by aircraft of ESSEX (CV-9), USS YORKTOWN (CV-10) and USS BUNKER HILL (CV-17).

18 February 1944:
SAN FRANCISCO MARU is dive-bombed by Grumman TBF “Avengers” of ESSEX and hit by up to six 500-lb. bombs. The explosions set her afire and she sinks by the stern. Five crewmen are KIA.

In two days of raids, Task Force 58 sinks 31 transports and 10 naval vessels (two cruisers, four destroyers and four auxiliary vessels, destroys nearly 200 aircraft and damages severely about 100 more. Truk is eliminated as a major fleet anchorage for the IJN.

30 April 1944:
Removed from the Navy List.

Sasako Maru/Sakura Maru

Description: 27 March 1940: Nagasaki. Laid down at Mitsubishi as a 7,180-ton passenger-cargo ship for the Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) Line.

13 March 1941: Launched and named SASAKO MARU.

28 June 1941: Completed.

8 July 1941: Requisitioned by the Imperial Army and alloted IJA No. 806. Converted to a troop transport. Two AA guns are fitted.

14 October 1942: At about 1030, the transports are attacked by the “Cactus Air Force” (later Air Sols) from Henderson Field, Guadalcanal with a force of 25 aircraft including 12 Douglas "Dauntless" SBD dive-bombers, three USAAF P-39s and one P-400 “Airacobra” fighters, eight F4F "Wildcat" fighters and one PBY-5 “Catalina” armed with two torpedoes. Either an SDB or the PBY hits SASAKO MARU with a bomb that starts a fatal fire. She is beached at 09-30S, 160-00E and becomes a total loss, but her troops, tanks and guns are landed successfully and 85 crewmen survive.

Seta & Hira

Description: Seta (堅田) was a river gunboat of the Imperial Japanese Navy, part of the 11th Gunboat Sentai, that operated on the Yangtze River in China during the 1920s, and during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. Seta was the lead vessel of the Seta-class river gunboats built under the 1920 Fleet Building Program of the Imperial Japanese Navy for operations on the inland waterways of China. She was reassigned back to Hangkow for patrols of the upper Yangtze River, and was attacked again on 1 September 1943, 22 May 1944, and 11 June 1944 without taking any damage. However, an attack on 17 August wrecked her stern and rudder, and she had to be towed to Shanghai for repairs. Repairs were completed on 24 October; however two days later she was bombed again and sank. Her armaments were salvaged to help bolster the land-based defenses of Shanghai, and she was removed from the navy list on 30 September 1945.

Hira (比良) was a river gunboat of the Imperial Japanese Navy, part of the 11th Gunboat Sentai, that operated on the Yangtze River in China during the 1930s, and during the Second Sino-Japanese War. On 26 November 1944 Hira and the gunboat Hozu ran aground near Anking, China. Chinese aircraft subsequently bombed and sunk Hozu and severely damaged Hira. Hira was scrapped in July 1945.

Shigure

Description: Shigure (時雨 ”Drizzle”) was the second of ten Shiratsuyu-class destroyers, and the first to be built for the Imperial Japanese Navy under the Circle One Program (Maru Ichi Keikaku).[2] Along with the destroyer Yukikaze, she developed a reputation within the Imperial Japanese Navy for being "lucky" or "unsinkable", emerging undamaged from several battles and as the sole surviving Japanese warship from two. As the flagship of Captain Tameichi Hara's Destroyer Division 27 Shigure received a prominent place in the memoirs of the only Japanese destroyer captain to survive the entire Pacific War. Shigure was torpedoed and sunk by the submarine USS Blackfin in the Gulf of Siam on 24 January 1945.

Builder: Uraga Dock Company
Laid down: 9 December 1933
Launched: 18 May 1935
Commissioned: 7 September 1936
Struck: 10 March 1945
Fate: Sunk in action 24 January 1945

Shigure & Yukikaze

Shikinami

Description: Shikinami (敷波 "Spreading Waves") was the 12th of 24 Fubuki-class destroyers, built for the Imperial Japanese Navy following World War I. When introduced into service, these ships were the most powerful destroyers in the world.
Builder: Maizuru Naval Arsenal
Yard number: Destroyer No. 46
Laid down: 6 July 1928
Launched: 22 June 1929
Commissioned: 24 December 1929
Struck: 10 October 1944
Fate: Sunk in action, 12 September 1944
On 12 September, after departing Singapore with a convoy bound for Japan, Shikinami was torpedoed by the submarine USS Growler 240 nmi (440 km; 280 mi) south of Hong Kong at position 18°16′N 114°40′E. Eight officers and 120 men rescued by the destroyer Mikura, but her captain — Lieutenant Commander Takahashi — and Rear Admiral Sadamichi Kajioka were killed in action.

On 10 October 1944, Shikinami was removed from the navy list.

Shikinami

Shikinami 1944

Shinkyo Maru 1942

Description: 25 February 1932: Uraga. Laid down by Uraga Senkyo K.K. Kojo shipyard as a 2,670-ton cargo ship for Chosen Yusen K.K., Jinsen.

24 November 1932: Launched and named SHINKYO MARU.

11 April 1933: Completed.

24 March 1944:
At 1430, as planned KUNIKAWA MARU is detached from a convoy and proceeds independently to Balikpapan Bay, Borneo arriving later that day.

About 28 nms E of Cape Chinaka, SE Mindanao, Philippines. LtCdr (later Cdr) Walter T. Griffith’s (USNA’34) USS BOWFIN (SS-287) makes radar contact with the convoy. At 2348, Griffith’s first salvo scores two hits on BENGAL MARU at 05-38N, 125-58E. In addition to her 54 crewmen, the transport is carrying 262 soldiers, 150 Formosans attached to a military labor unit and 54 other passengers. BENGAL MARU sinks rapidly taking down with her 41 crewmen, four gunners and 161 passengers. At 2353, Griffith torpedoes and hits SHINKYO MARU at 05-37N, 125-58E. Awash from stern to bridge, SHINKYO MARU sinks in three minutes taking down with her 12 crewmen and 49 passengers.

15 May 1944:
Removed from the Navy List under internal order No. 654.

Shinonome

Description: Shinonome (東雲 ”Daybreak”) was the sixth of twenty-four Fubuki-class destroyers, built for the Imperial Japanese Navy following World War I. They served as first-line destroyers through the 1930s, and remained formidable weapons systems well into the Pacific War.

Builder: Sasebo Naval Arsenal
Yard number: Destroyer No.40
Laid down: 12 August 1926
Launched: 26 November 1927
Commissioned: 25 July 1928

At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Shinonome was assigned to Destroyer Division 12 of Desron 3 of the IJN 1st Fleet, and had deployed from Kure Naval District to the port of Samah on Hainan Island. From 4 December to 12 December, she covered Japanese landings at Kota Bharu in Malaya.[6]

From 16 December, Shinonome was assigned to cover Japanese landings during "Operation B", the invasion of British Borneo. The Shinonome was sunk on 17 December 1941, after being struck by two bombs from a Dornier Do 24 flying boat X-32 of the Royal Dutch Naval Air Group GVT-7, which detonated her aft magazine. The Shinonome exploded and sank with all hands in the vicinity of Miri, Sarawak (04°24′N 114°0′E)

On 15 January 1942, Shinonome was struck from the navy list. The exact position of the wreck of Shinonome remains unknown.

Shioya

Shiranui

Description: Shiranui (不知火 alternatively Shiranuhi, Phosphorescent Light) was the second vessel to be commissioned in the 19-vessel Kagerō-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the late-1930s under the Circle Three Supplementary Naval Expansion Program (Maru San Keikaku).

Ordered: Uraga Dock Company
Laid down: 30 August 1937
Launched: 28 June 1938
Completed: 20 December 1939
Struck: 10 December 1944
Fate: Sunk in action, 27 October 1944

On 15 November 1943, Shiranui was assigned to the IJN 9th Fleet, and escorted convoys to Palau, Wewak and Hollandia during January and February 1944. On 1 March, she was reassigned to the IJN 5th Fleet and was assigned to northern waters, making patrols from her base at Ominato Guard District in April, and returning with the cruisers Nachi and Ashigara to Kure at the start of August. During the Battle of Leyte Gulf on 24–25 October 1944, Shiranui was assigned to Vice Admiral Shōji Nishimura’s diversionary force at the Battle of Surigao Strait. After the battle, she departed Coron to search for the missing cruiser Kinu and destroyer Uranami, and took on survivors from the destroyer Hayashimo. On 27 October she was sunk with all hands by dive-bombers from USS Enterprise, 80 miles (130 km) north of Iloilo, Panay (12°0′N 122°30′E).

Shiranui was removed from the navy list on 10 December 1944.

Shiranui

Shiratsuyu 1942

Description: Shiratsuyu (白露 ”White Dew”) was the lead ship of ten Shiratsuyu-class destroyers, and first of six to be built for the Imperial Japanese Navy under the Circle One Program (Maru Ichi Keikaku).

Builder: Sasebo Naval Arsenal
Laid down: 14 November 1933
Launched: 5 April 1935
Commissioned: 7 September 1936
Struck: 10 August 1944
Fate: Sunk in collision 15 June 1944

hiratsuyu was attacked on 8 June off of Biak by US Navy aircraft, with four killed and five crewmen injured. On the night of 14 June, she collided with the Japanese tanker Seiyo Maru 90 nautical miles (170 km) southeast of Surigao Strait (09°09′N 126°51′E), after which her depth charges exploded among survivors. Of her crew, 104 were killed, including her captain, Commander Matsuda. She was removed from the navy list on 10 August 1944.

Shirayuki

Description: Shirayuki (白雪 ”White Snow”) was the second of twenty-four Fubuki-class destroyers.
Builder: Yokohama Shipyards, Japan
Yard number: Destroyer No.36
Laid down: 19 March 1927
Launched: 20 March 1928
Commissioned: 18 December 1928
Struck: 1 April 1943
Fate: Sunk in air attack by American and Australian aircraft bombs on 3 March 1943

During the Battle of the Bismarck Sea on 1–4 March, Shirayuki was flagship for Rear Admiral Masatomi Kimura, leading a troop convoy from Rabaul to Lae. In an Allied air attack on 3 March, a skip-bomb exploded in her aft magazine, severing her stern, and killing 32 crewmen. Shirayuki sank 55 nautical miles (102 km) southeast of Finschhafen at position 07°15′S 148°30′E. The survivors, who included Admiral Kimura and her captain Commander Sugawara were rescued by Shikinami.

On 1 April 1943, Shirayuki was removed from the navy list.

Shokaku Ver.1.2 1942-1944

Description: Shōkaku (Japanese: 翔鶴, "Soaring Crane") was an aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy, the lead ship of her class. Along with her sister ship Zuikaku, she took part in several key naval battles during the Pacific War, including the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands before being torpedoed and sunk by a U.S. submarine at the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
Laid down: 12 December 1937
Launched: 1 June 1939
Commissioned: 8 August 1941
Fate: Sunk by American submarine USS Cavalla on 19 June 1944

During the Battle of the Philippine Sea, she was struck at 11:22 on 19 June by three (possibly four) torpedoes from the submarine USS Cavalla (Commander Herman J. Kossler). As Shōkaku had been in the process of refueling and rearming aircraft and was in an extremely vulnerable position, the torpedoes started fires that proved impossible to control. At 12:10, an aerial bomb exploded, detonating aviation fuel vapors which had spread throughout the ship. The order to abandon ship was given, but before the evacuation had progressed very far, Shōkaku abruptly took on water forward and sank quickly bow-first at position 11°40′N 137°40′E, taking 1,272 men with her. The light cruiser Yahagi and destroyers Urakaze, Wakatsuki, and Hatsuzuki rescued Captain Matsubara and 570 men.

Soya 1942

Description: Sōya (宗谷) is a Japanese icebreaker that serves as a museum ship in Tokyo after a long and storied service spanning some of the 20th century's historic events. It is named for Sōya Subprefecture in Hokkaido.
Construction

The vessel was built as Volochaevets, commissioned by the Soviets in 1936 from the Matsuo shipyard, on Nagaskai's Koyagi Island, as part-payment for Japan's construction of the South Manchuria Railway (also known as the Chinese Eastern Railway). Two other ice-strengthened cargo ships were ordered at the same time, Bolshevik and Komsomolets. All three were built but, owing to the worsening state of Japan-Soviet relations by that time, the ships were never delivered. Volochaevets was launched from the now renamed Kawaminami Shipyard in February 1938. She was completed as an ice-breaking cargo freighter for the Tatsunan Kisen Co. and was renamed Chiryō Maru. Bolshevik and Komsomolets were renamed Minryo Maru and Tenryo Maru.
War role
In November 1939 the Imperial Japanese Navy requisitioned Chiryo Maru for national service. In February 1940 she was renamed Sōya, a name previously held by the former Varyag, an armoured cruiser seized from Imperial Russia but which Japan returned in 1916. The icebreaker Sōya was assigned duties as an auxiliary ammunition supply and survey vessel. She survived the Second World War, albeit with multiple close calls. In January 1943 Sōya was attacked by USS Greenling. The torpedoes either missed or proved to be duds: Sōya's crew hoisted one undetonated torpedo onto the deck in celebration. In February 1944 aircraft from TF58 attacked the Japanese anchorage at Truk, sinking 41 Japanese vessels. Sōya escaped but ran aground as she did so. Ten crewmembers were killed.[2] On 26 June 1945 the submarine USS Parche attacked a convoy escorting Sōya and other transport ships from Yokohama to Hakodate, sinking an escort vessel and disabling one transport ship. On 9 August 1945 Sōya was at anchor in Onagawa Bay as part of a flotilla with other vessels when British bombers attacked from the air, sinking at least two of them.

After the war, with Japan in defeat and needing to repatriate millions of individuals from its former colonies, Sōya was removed from the navy list and was assigned duties with the nation's repatriation fleet. Modifications at this time included removal of her guns and the installation of facilities for passengers such as toilets in what had been her large forward and aft cargo holds. Spacious wooden accommodation was also built on deck. She undertook numerous missions embarking troops and passengers, including calls at Shanghai, Tinian and Guam. In light of her ice-breaking ability, she was also assigned northerly missions and by 1948 had made 14 voyages to and from Sakhalin (the former Karafuto), evacuating citizens by agreement with the new authorities from what had become part of the Soviet Union.

(Sōya should not be confused during this period with Soya Maru, one of three ice-strengthened passenger ferries that operated on the Japan National Railways maritime Chihaku Line between Odomari, the present-day Korsakov in Sakhalin, and Wakkanai in Hokkaido from 1923 to August 1945.)

Suma

Description: United Kingdom
Name: HMS Moth
Ordered: 1915
Builder: Sunderland Shipbuilding Company
Laid down: 1915
Launched: 9 October 1915
Commissioned: 5 January 1916
Fate: Scuttled 12 December 1941 at Hong Kong

Empire of Japan
Name: Suma (須磨)
Namesake: Suma-ku, Kobe
Builder: Navy 2nd Construction Department at Hong Kong
Acquired: February 1942
Commissioned: 1 July 1942
Decommissioned: 10 May 1945
Struck: 11 May 1945
Fate: Sunk 19 March 1945 by naval mine

On 8 December 1941, HMS Moth was in port during an air raid by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force. Moth was in the dock for repairs, but with the fall of the city to the Japanese imminent, Moth was scuttled on 12 December. The Imperial Japanese Navy dispatched the Navy 2nd Construction Department (海軍第二工作部 Kaigun Dai-2 Kōsaku-Bu) to Hong Kong to investigate Moth, and on 1 July 1942, she was refloated and renamed Suma (須磨). Suma is a Japanese beauty spot appearing in The Tale of Genji.

On 29 July 1943 she fired on US aircraft during an air raid on Hong Kong. Suma was attacked by three 14th Air Force B-25s on 29 December 1943, and by two B-25s the next day receiving some damage, while claiming to kill one B-25. On 11 June 1944, the ship was attacked by P-38s and on 18 June, by three B-25s. On 26 December Suma was attacked by seven P-51s, with the aft 25 mm gun wrecked and 18 killed and four wounded. The aft gun was replaced and repairs made to the ship 28–30 December at Yanhu.[1]

Suma was attacked by P-51s on 11 February 1945. The ship was repaired at Mitsubishi Yangshupu Shipyard, Shanghai from 17 February to 12 March 1945.[1] She was active on the Yangtze River in anti-insurgency operations. On 19 March 1945, she struck a naval mine at Anqing and sank with a loss of 8 crewmen.

Suzukaze & Umikaze

Description: Suzukaze (涼風 "cool breeze") was the tenth and final vessel of ten Shiratsuyu-class destroyers.

Builder: Uraga Dock Company
Laid down: 9 July 1935
Launched: 11 March 1937
Commissioned: 31 August 1937
Struck: 10 March 1944
Fate: Sunk 25 January 1944

On 25 January 1944, while escorting a convoy from Truk to Eniwetok, Suzukaze was torpedoed and sunk by the submarine USS Skipjack 127 nautical miles (235 km) north-northwest of Pohnpei (formerly Ponape) at position 08°51′N 157°10′ECoordinates: 08°51′N 157°10′E. She was removed from the navy list on 10 March 1944.

Umikaze (海風 ”Sea Breeze”) was the seventh of ten Shiratsuyu-class destroyers, and the first to be built for the Imperial Japanese Navy under the Circle Two Program (Maru Ni Keikaku).
Builder: Maizuru Naval Arsenal
Laid down: 4 May 1935
Launched: 27 November 1936
Commissioned: 31 May 1937
Struck: 31 March 1944
Fate: Sunk 1 February 1944

Umikaze went into dock at Sasebo in November, where her “X” turret was removed and replaced by additional Type 96 anti-aircraft guns. She returned to active duty at the end of December, escorting a troop convoy to Truk, and then patrolling out of Saipan from mid-January 1944. On 1 February 1944, while escorting a convoy from Saipan to Truk, Umikaze was torpedoed and sunk by the submarine USS Guardfish off the southern entrance to Truk Atoll (07°10′N 151°43′E). She sank slowly, allowing for 215 survivors, with 50 crewmen lost.

She was removed from the navy list on 31 March 1944.

Taigei SP

Description: Builder: Yokosuka Naval Arsenal
Laid down: 12 April 1933
Launched: 16 November 1933
Completed: 31 March 1934
Out of service: 12 December 1941
Renamed: 30 November 1942
Fate: converted to light aircraft carrier
Name: Ryūhō
Namesake: Japanese for Dragon Phoenix
Recommissioned: 30 November 1942
Struck: 30 November 1945
Fate: Scrapped in 1946

Taigei was laid down at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal on 12 April 1933, and was launched on 16 November 1933.[2] Construction was rushed by plans to have Emperor Hirohito attend the launching ceremony and due to inexperience with the electric arc welding method, portions of the hull warped during construction. Immediately after the launching ceremony, Taigei was returned to the dry dock for repairs and modifications, which involved replacement of damaged sections by the traditional rivet construction method.

Formally commissioned on 31 March 1934, Taigei was soon damaged by a typhoon in what was later called the "Fourth Fleet Incident". Seawater ingression from faulty waterproof doors shorted the electric system, disabling her steering and the waves from the typhoon cracked a number of the welds in her hull. Further repairs at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal were scheduled for early 1936, but were delayed by the February 26 Incident. It was not until September 1938 that Taigei was deemed fully operational, and assigned to its design role as flagship of a submarine squadron.

From 1938-1940, Taigei performed normal operations in both northern and southern waters off Japan, with her primary mission being to support submarine operations off the coast of China from her home port of Kure in the Second Sino-Japanese War. She was reassigned from the IJN 1st Fleet to the IJN 6th Fleet on 15 November 1940 and was based at Kwajalein Atoll from 10 April 1941. Shortly before the start of hostilities in the Pacific War, Taigei was ordered back to Japan for conversion into a light aircraft carrier, arriving at Kure on 4 December 1941.

The conversion work began on 20 December 1941 at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, and was originally scheduled to be completed within three months; however, numerous problems and issues arose, and the conversion work was not completed until 30 November 1942. She gained the distinction of being the only major warship damaged in the Doolittle Raid on 18 April 1942. She received one direct hit from a 500 lb (230 kg) bomb on the bow, plus several small incendiary bomb hits, with seven casualties among her crew.[5] As an aircraft carrier, the vessel was renamed Ryūhō

Taiyo

Description: The Japanese aircraft carrier Taiyō (大鷹, "Big Eagle") was the lead ship of her class of three escort carriers. She was originally built as Kasuga Maru (春日丸), the last of three Nitta Maru class of passenger-cargo liners built in Japan during the late 1930s. The ship was requisitioned by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in early 1941 and was converted into an escort carrier. Taiyō was initially used to transport aircraft to distant air bases and for training, but was later used to escort convoys of merchant ships between Japan and Singapore. The ship was torpedoed twice by American submarines with negligible to moderate damage before she was sunk in mid-1944 with heavy loss of life.

Completed: 2 September 1941
Acquired: 1941
Renamed: Taiyō (大鷹) (31 August 1942)
Fate: Sunk by the submarine USS Rasher off Cape Bolinao, Luzon, 18 August 1944

Taiyo SD

Takanami

Description: Takanami (高波) was a Yūgumo-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her name means "Tall Wave".

Completed: 31 August 1942
Struck: 24 December 1942
Fate: Sunk, 30 November 1942

On the night of October 13–14 1942, she escorted battleships Kongō and Haruna during the bombardment of Henderson Field, Guadalcanal. On the night of October 15–16, she escorted cruisers Myōkō and Maya during the bombardment of Henderson Field. On 30 November 1942, Takanami was on a supply transport run to Guadalcanal, when her task group engaged a United States Navy task group in the Battle of Tassafaronga. Takanami torpedoed the heavy cruisers USS Minneapolis and New Orleans. She was sunk by enemy gunfire — largely from Minneapolis — several miles south-southwest of Savo Island (9°14′S 159°49′E), with 197 killed; 48 survivors reached Guadalcanal, 19 were later captured by US troops.

Takekawa Maru/Toei Maru

Description: Name: Tōhō Maru
Laid down: 1 May 1936
Launched: 31 October 1936
Completed: 24 December 1936
Acquired: by requisition, 20 August 1941
Fate: Sunk by torpedo, 29 March 1943

Tōhō Maru was an oiler of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). The ship was launched as a civilian oil tanker for Iino Kaiun Kaisha on May 1, 1936. On August 20, 1941 the ship was requisitioned by the IJN and converted into a fleet replenishment oiler. The ship subsequently served Japan during the Pacific Campaign of World War II. On March 29, 1943 the ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Makassar Strait at 00°00′N 118°19′ECoordinates: 00°00′N 118°19′E by the United States Navy submarine Gudgeon (SS-211).

IJA Transport TAKEKAWA MARU
1 September 1938:
Yokohama. Laid down at Tsurumi Seitetsu Zosen K. K. as Yard No. 381, a 1,931 ton cargo ship for Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd., Tokyo

21 December 1938:
Launched and named TAKEGAWA MARU.

4 April 1939:
Completed.

4 October 1941:
Requisitioned by the Imperial Army (IJA) as a troop transport. Allotted IJA No. 809.

28 April 1944:
At 1300, TAKEGAWA MARU departs Takao for Manila in convoy TAMA-17 also consisting of BELGIUM, HAKKA (SHIRAKAWA), NISSAN, NITTATSU, PEKING, SHIROGANESAN, TSUSHIMA, SAN LUIS, WALES, YAMAHAGI and YASHIMA MARUs escorted by destroyer HARUKAZE, minesweeper W-17 and auxiliary gunboat CHOHAKUSAN MARU.

29 April 1944:
Destroyer ASAKAZE joins the escort.

South China Sea. W of Luzon Strait. At 2155, LtCdr Anton R. Gallaher's (USNA ’33) USS BANG (SS-385) torpedoes and sinks TAKEGAWA MARU at 19-20N, 118-50E. Seven crewmen are KIA.

Toba

Description: Toba (鳥羽) was a river gunboat of the Imperial Japanese Navy, part of the 11th Gunboat Sentai, that operated on the Yangtze River in China during the 1930s, and during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.

Ordered: 1910 Fiscal Year
Builder: Sasebo Naval Arsenal, Japan
Laid down: 7 July 1911
Launched: 7 November 1911
Commissioned: 17 November 1911
Fate: 1945 to China

With the start of World War II on 8 December 1941, Toba assisted in the sinking of the Royal Navy gunboat HMS Peterel (1927) and the capture of the US Navy gunboat USS Wake (PR-3). She continued to make patrols on the lower reaches of the Yangzi River from 1942 through 1945, with service and overhaul at increasingly frequent intervals at the Kiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai.[4]

Abandoned by Japanese forces in Shanghai at the surrender of Japan in September 1945, she was captured by the Republic of China and incorporated into the Chinese Navy as the gunboat Yong Ji (永济).

Toho Maru/Takekawa Maru

Tokitsukaze

Description: Tokitsukaze (時津風 lit. “favorable wind”?) was the tenth vessel to be commissioned in the 19-vessel Kagerō-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the late-1930s under the Circle Three Supplementary Naval Expansion Program (Maru San Keikaku).

Ordered: Uraga Dock Company
Laid down: 20 February 1939
Launched: 10 November 1939
Completed: 15 December 1940

During the Battle of Bismarck Sea on 3 March 1943, Tokitsukaze was damaged by an Allied air attack, which killed 19 crewmen and left her dead in the water. Her skipper, Commander Mayasyoshi Motokura, gave the order to abandon ship, and the survivors were taken aboard the destroyer Yukikaze. The abandoned vessel was discovered southeast of Finschhafen and sunk by Allied aircraft the following morning at coordinates (07°16′S 148°15′E).

She was removed from the navy list on 1 April 1943.

Tonan Maru No.2 1942

Description: Builder and Year Completed: Osaka Iron Works 1937

Ex-whale oil factory ship TONAN MARU No. 2 was torpedoed and sunk in the East China Sea by an American submarine in August 1944. Sister-ship TONAN MARU No. 3 was sunk by Task Force 58's aircraft at Truk Lagoon in Operation "Hailstone" in February 1944.

14 August 1936:
Osaka. Laid down at Osaka Iron Works as a 19,262-ton whale oil factory ship for Nippon Suisan K. K. (Japan. Fisheries Co., Ltd.) of Tokyo.

11 May 1937:
Launched and named TONAN MARU No. 2.

31 August 1937:
Completed.

20 August 1944:
TONAN MARU No. 2 departs Keelung in convoy TAMO-23 also consisting of 13 unidentified merchant ships escorted by kaibokan CD-5, CD-6, CD-9, CD-18, subchaser CH-58 and auxiliary gunboat CHOHAKUSAN MARU.

22 August 1944:
South China Sea. At about 1900, LtCdr (later Admiral/CINCPACFLT) Bernard A. Clarey’s (USNA ’34) USS PINTADO (SS-387) picks up the convoy. After dark, Clarey moves past a nearby escort and into the center of the convoy. He fires two spreads of 10 torpedoes at TONAN MARU NO. 2 and gets at least two hits. Set ablaze, TONAN MARU No. 2 burns for about three hours, then sinks at 29-53N, 125-19E. Four crewmen are KIA.

Type No.112 Submarine Chaser

Description: In 1942 at capture of Dutch East India of a number of small Dutch ships thrown at retreat has got into Japanese hands. Part from them has been scuttled on shallow water, others were in incomplete condition in yards in Surabaya and Batavia. After repair and completion 18 boats became a part of IJN as auxiliary submarine chasers. Ex-Dutch minesweepers of "A" class, scuttled by own crews 1 -6/3/1942. All were raised and commissioned by IJN as auxiliary submarine chasers.

Naval service: 112-go and 116-go were sunk by American carrier aircraft 4/6/1945 in Java Sea and 13/11/1944 in 20nm W off Cavite respectively. 113-go was sunk 23/6/1945 off Talembau (Java) by American submarine Hardhead.

Name No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
第112号駆潜特務艇 (Cha112) (ex-B) Willemsoord, Den Helder, Netherlands 9/1928 24/9/1929 8/1930 // 12/1942 sunk 4/6/1945
第113号駆潜特務艇 (Cha113) (ex-A) Willemsoord, Den Helder, Netherlands 9/1928 19/4/1929 8/1930 // 1/1943 sunk 23/6/1945
第116号駆潜特務艇 (Cha116) (ex-C) Willemsoord, Den Helder, Netherlands 4/1929 1929 8/1930 // 4/1943 sunk 13/11/1944

Umikaze

Description: Umikaze (海風 ”Sea Breeze”) was the seventh of ten Shiratsuyu-class destroyers.
Builder: Maizuru Naval Arsenal
Laid down: 4 May 1935
Launched: 27 November 1936
Commissioned: 31 May 1937
Struck: 31 March 1944
Fate: Sunk 1 February 1944

Umikaze went into dock at Sasebo in November 1943, where her “X” turret was removed and replaced by additional Type 96 anti-aircraft guns. She returned to active duty at the end of December, escorting a troop convoy to Truk, and then patrolling out of Saipan from mid-January 1944. On 1 February 1944, while escorting a convoy from Saipan to Truk, Umikaze was torpedoed and sunk by the submarine USS Guardfish off the southern entrance to Truk Atoll (07°10′N 151°43′E). She sank slowly, allowing for 215 survivors, with 50 crewmen lost.

She was removed from the navy list on 31 March 1944.

Uranami

Description: L'Uranami (浦波) était un destroyer de classe Fubuki en service dans la Marine impériale japonaise pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

À sa mise en service, il rejoint la 11e division de destroyers de la 2e flotte. Durant la deuxième guerre sino-japonaise, il couvre le débarquement des forces japonaises lors de la bataille de Shanghai et à Hangzhou, dans le nord de la Chine.

De 4 décembre 1941 jusqu'à la fin de l'année, l'Uranami couvre les débarquements des troupes japonaises lors de l'opération E (en) et de l'opération B, capturant le navire marchand norvégien SS Hafthor.

Le 19 décembre, l'Uranami coule le sous-marin hollandais HNLMS O 20 avec l'aide de ses navires jumeaux Ayanami et Yūgiri, secourant 32 survivants.
L'Uranami (date inconnue).

Il fait partie de l'escorte des croiseurs lourds Suzuya, Kumano, Mogami et Mikuma déployés à partir de Samah, de la baie de Cam ranh et de l'Indochine française en appuyant les opérations d'invasion de Malaisie, Banka-Palembang et Anambas. En février, il participe à l'opération J, à l'opération T et à l'opération L.

Le 23 mars 1942, l'Uranami couvre l'opération D, effectuant des patrouilles d'escorte au large de Port Blair pendant les raids japonais dans l'océan Indien. Les 13 et 22 avril, le destroyer accoste à Singapour et la baie de Camranh avant de rejoindre la base de Kure pour un entretien.

Les 4 et 5 juin, il participe à la bataille de Midway au sein de la flotte principale de l'amiral Isoroku Yamamoto. Après la bataille, il est endommagé lors d'une collision avec l'Isonami, retournant à l'arsenal naval de Kure pour des réparations. Au cours de la bataille des Salomon orientales le 24 août, l'Uranami escorte le groupe de ravitaillement de la flotte jusqu'à Guadalcanal. Opérant à partir de Truk, le destroyer prend part à de nombreux « Tokyo Express » à Guadalcanal en septembre et octobre.

Les 14 et 15 novembre, l'Uranami participe à la deuxième bataille navale de Guadalcanal rattaché à une force de reconnaissance sous le commandement du contre-amiral Shintarō Hashimoto. Au cours de la bataille, il assiste l'Ayanami (sabordé après la bataille) et le croiseur léger Nagara. Il prend part aux naufrages des USS Preston et USS Walke, endommage les USS Benham (sabordé après la bataille) et USS Gwin.

Après l'affrontement, l'Uranami escorte le porte-avions Chūyō de Truk à Yokosuka, retournant à Rabaul à la mi-février 1943 pour reprendre les missions de patrouille, d'escorte et de transport dans les îles Salomon. Le 25 février 1943, le destroyer est réaffecté à la Flotte de la zone Sud-Ouest. Pendant la bataille de la mer de Bismarck du 1er au 4 mars, l'Uranami subit des attaques aériennes répétées sans dommages tout en secourant des survivants.

Après avoir effectué plusieurs missions d'escorte dans les Indes orientales néerlandaises en avril, l'Uranami heurte un récif le 2 avril près de Makassar. Il fut réparé à Surabaya jusqu'à la fin d'août. Patrouillant de nouveau en septembre, il escorte des convois jusqu'à Singapour jusqu'à la fin de l'année.

Au début de 1944, le destroyer quitte Singapour avec le croiseur Kuma pour un convoi de transport de troupes vers Mergui et Penang. Durant le trajet du retour, le Kuma fut torpillé et l'Uranami secourra les survivants.

Du 27 février au 25 mars, l'Uranami escorte les croiseurs Aoba, Tone et Chikuma lors d'un autre raid dans l'océan Indien.

Dans la matinée du 26 octobre, pendant la bataille du golfe de Leyte, le convoi comprenant l'Uranami est attaqué entre Masbate et Panay par 80 avions de la Task Force 77.4.2 "Taffy 2" (porte-avions USS Manila Bay, Marcus Island, Natoma Bay et Petrof Bay). Le destroyer est touché par deux bombes et plusieurs roquettes tuant 103 hommes d'équipage avant de couler vers midi à la position 11° 50′ N, 123° 00′ E, au sud-est de Masbate. Trois transports vides (retardataires du convoi) arrivèrent dans l'après-midi et secoururent 94 survivants.

Le destroyer fut rayé des listes de la marine le 10 décembre 1944.

Uranami

Ushio 1945

Description: Builder: Uraga Dock Company
Yard number: Destroyer No. 54
Laid down: 24 December 1929
Launched: 17 November 1930
Commissioned: 14 November 1931
Struck: 15 September 1945
Fate: Scrapped on 4 August 1948
Notes: surrendered 15 August 1945

Ushio (潮 "Tide") was the twentieth of twenty-four Fubuki-class destroyers, built for the Imperial Japanese Navy following World War I. When introduced into service, these ships were the most powerful destroyers in the world. They served as first-line destroyers through the 1930s, and remained formidable weapons systems well into the Pacific War. Ushio was one of only two of the 24 ships in its class to survive World War II, and it was also the only survivor out of the 22 combat ships involved in the Pearl Harbor assault force.

At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Ushio was assigned to Destroyer Division 7 of the IJN 1st Air Fleet, and had deployed from Tateyama Naval Air Station as part of the force which bombarded Midway Atoll in the opening stages of the war.

Ushio was part of the escort for the aircraft carriers Hiryū and Sōryū during air strikes against Ambon. She was subsequently was part of the escort for the cruisers Nachi and Haguro during the Japanese invasion of the eastern Netherlands East Indies. On 2 March, at the Battle of the Java Sea, Ushio assisted in attacking the submarine USS Perch, with depth charges and taking on 59 survivors. She returned to Yokosuka Naval Arsenal for repairs at the end of March.

Ushio subsequently escorted aircraft carrier Shōkaku to Truk, at the Battle of the Coral Sea. On 4–5 June, Ushio participated in the Battle of Midway as was part of the diversionary Aleutian Invasion force and was subsequently based at Ōminato Guard District for patrols of northern waters until mid-July.

On 14 July, Ushio was reassigned to the Combined Fleet, and escorted the battleship Yamato and aircraft carrier Taiyō at the Battle of the Eastern Solomons on 24 August, returning with Yamato to Truk after the battle.

She was then assigned to numerous "Tokyo Express" transport missions to various locations in the Solomon Islands in September. Through the end of 1943, Ushio served as an escort for Unyō, Ryūhō, Zuihō,　and Taiyō in various missions between the Japanese home islands, Truk, the Netherlands East Indies and the Philippines.

In early 1944, Ushio was assigned to escort duty, mostly of troop convoys from Truk. From April through August, she was based at Ōminato Guard District for patrols of northern waters, and escort of ships between Hokkaidō and Yokosuka or Kure.

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Ushio was assigned to Admiral Kiyohide Shima’s Diversionary Force at the Battle of Surigao Strait, remaining based in Manila after the battle to escort convoys in the Philippines. She was damaged on 13 September, during an American air raid on Manila, during which her starboard engine was disabled, and 23 crewmen killed. After repairs were made in Singapore in November, Ushio was reassigned to the IJN 2nd Fleet. In December, she assisted the disabled cruiser Myōkō.

Returning to Yokosuka Naval Arsenal for repairs, Ushio remained in Japanese waters until the surrender of Japan. On 18 July 1945 she provided antiaircraft fire to defend the battleship Nagato during the attack on Yokosuka. On 15 September 1945, Ushio was removed from the navy list. She was broken up for scrap in 1948.

Yaeyama

Description: Yaeyama (八重山) was a small minelayer of the Imperial Japanese Navy, which was in service during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II primarily as an escort vessel. She was named after the Yaeyama Islands in the Ryukyu Islands chain. She was the first Japanese warship built with an all-welded hull.

The Imperial Japanese Navy budget for Fiscal 1927 include a small minelayer for coastal and river service to complement its larger minelayers, the former cruisers Aso, and Tokiwa. Yaeyama was launched by the Kure Naval Arsenal in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan on 15 October 1931, and was commissioned into service on 31 August 1932.

On the early morning of 24 September 1944 Yaeyama was sunk after being hit by at least ten bombs during an air attack by 96 Grumman F6F Hellcat and 24 Curtiss SB2C Helldiver aircraft from the carriers USS Intrepid and USS Lexington and the light carrier USS Cabot while anchored in Coron Bay, Busuanga Island, off Palawan Island in the Philippines at 12°15′N 121°00′E. Most of the crew survived, including her commanding officer, Captain Michizo Tsutsumi. Yaeyama was removed from the navy list on 10 November 1944.

Yahagi/Sakawa 1944

Description: Sakawa (酒匂) was an Agano-class cruiser which served with the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II. She was named after a river in Kanagawa prefecture, Japan. She may be best known for her use as an atomic bomb target at Bikini Atoll.

Builder: Sasebo Naval Arsenal
Laid down: 21 November 1942
Launched: 9 April 1944
Commissioned: 30 November 1944
Struck: 5 October 1945
Fate:
Sunk 2 July 1946 by atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll 11°35′N 165°23′E

On 1 April 1945, Sakawa was assigned to "Operation Ten-Go", the suicide mission against the American invasion forces at Okinawa. Sakawa and her squadron of destroyers were originally scheduled to accompany the battleship Yamato with her sister ship Yahagi, but there was no fuel available for Sakawa to participate in the mission. After the loss of Yamato, Sakawa was ordered to relocate to the Maizuru Naval District, arriving on 19 July. At Maizuru, she was attacked by aircraft from the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown on 25 July, but was not damaged.

At the time of the surrender of Japan on 2 September 1945, Sakawa was docked at Maizuru, having never once been in combat. She was demilitarized, with her guns disabled, and her torpedoes, ammunition and other armaments removed. On 5 October 1945, Sakawa was officially removed from the navy list

Built at Sasebo Naval Arsenal, Yahagi was laid down on 11 November 1941, launched on 25 October 1942 and completed on 29 December 1943.
Builder: Sasebo Naval Arsenal
Laid down: 11 November 1941
Launched: 25 October 1942
Commissioned: 29 December 1943
Struck: 20 June 1945
Fate: Sunk 7 April 1945 by USN aircraft south of Kyūshū 30°47′N 128°08′E

Yamakaze & Kawakaze

Description: Yamakaze (山風 ”Mountain Wind”) was the eighth of ten Shiratsuyu-class destroyers, and the second to be built for the Imperial Japanese Navy.
Builder: Uraga Dock Company
Laid down: 25 May 1935
Launched: 21 February 1936
Commissioned: 30 June 1937
Struck: 20 August 1942

On 25 June 1942, while steaming independently from Ōminato towards the Inland Sea, Yamakaze was torpedoed and sunk with all hands by the submarine USS Nautilus approximately 60 nautical miles (110 km) southeast of Yokosuka at position 34°34′N 140°26′E.

Kawakaze (江風 ”Bay Wind”) was the ninth of ten Shiratsuyu-class destroyers.
Builder: Fujinagata Shipyards
Laid down: 25 April 1935
Launched: 1 November 1936
Commissioned: 30 April 1937
Struck: 15 October 1943
Fate: Sunk 7 August 1943
On 7 August 1943, Kawakaze was on a troop transport run to Kolombangara. In the Battle of Vella Gulf she was sunk by gunfire and torpedoes of the American destroyers USS Dunlap, Craven and Maury, between Kolombangara and Vella Lavella at position 07°50′S 156°54′ECoordinates: 07°50′S 156°54′E. Of her crew, 169 were killed, including her captain, Lieutenant Commander Yanase. She was removed from the navy list on 15 October 1943.

Yasukawa Maru 1941

Description: Built as the Silvercypress in 1930 by Harland & Wolff Ltd, Belfast for the Silver Line. On 13 January 1937 she was beached and on fire on Guimaras Island, while on a voyage from New York to Hong Kong. She was towed to Manila and sold to Japanese shipbreakers.

in 1939, however, she was repaired and sold to Kawasaki Kisen K. K., Kobe and renamed Yasukawa Maru.
Damaged by US Aircraft and scuttled off New Britain Island on 15 Nov 42.

2 November 1942:
Basabua, Huon Gulf, NE of Buna, New Guinea. From about 0800 to about 1400, USAAF 5th Air Force B-17 heavy bombers make several raids in the Buna area.

YASUKAWA MARU's forward Type 88 75-mm AA gunners, who had been drinking beer, accidentally disable their gun. The fourth wave of bombs hits her No. 3 hold and the engine room and renders her unnavigable. YASUKAWA MARU drifts and is later scuttled by an unidentified torpedo boat in Dampier Straits at 08-41S, 148-27E.

Sources also vary about the date, place and conditions surrounding YASUKAWA MARU's sinking. One source says the scuttling happened on 15 November. Another says she was sunk by the bombing further east at 07-16S, 156-00E. Finally, another source says she was scuttled by guns of an unidentified torpedo boat at 07-08S, 149-35E.

Yayoi

Description: The Japanese destroyer Yayoi (弥生 "March") was one of twelve Mutsuki-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the 1920s. During the Pacific War, she participated in the Battle of Wake Island in December 1941 and the occupations of New Guinea and the Solomon Islands in early 1942.

Builder: Uraga Dock Company, Uraga
Laid down: 11 January 1924 as Destroyer No. 23
Launched: 11 July 1925
Completed: 28 August 1926
Renamed: As Yayoi, 1 August 1928

At the end of August 1942, Yayoi made a number of Tokyo Express troop transport runs to Milne, New Guinea. From early September, it began participating in Operation Ke, the evacuation of Japanese forces from Guadalcanal. On 11 September 1942, after departing Rabaul on an evacuation mission to Goodenough Island, Yayoi came under attack by Allied B-17 Flying Fortress and B-25 Mitchell bombers, 8 miles (13 km) northwest of Vakuta Island at coordinates 08°45′S 151°25′E. The attack also killed the commander of Destroyer Division 30, Captain Shiro Yasutake. Taking on water uncontrollably, Yayoi's captain, Lieutenant Commander Shizuka Kajimoto, gave the decision to abandon ship. The destroyers Mochizuki and Isokaze later rescued 83 survivors from nearby Normanby Island. Yayoi was struck from the Navy List on 20 October 1942.

Yudachi

Description: Yūdachi (夕立 "Evening Squall") was the fourth of ten Shiratsuyu-class destroyers.
Builder: Sasebo Naval Arsenal
Laid down: 16 October 1934
Launched: 21 June 1936
Commissioned: 7 January 1937
Struck: 15 December 1942
Fate: Sunk 13 November 1942

On the night of 12–13 November 1942, in the First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, Yūdachi escorted the Bombardment Force of Rear Admiral Abe Hiroaki. The lead ship in the formation at beginning of battle, Yūdachi had to swerve to avoid U.S. ships, then torpedoed the cruiser USS Portland. Yūdachi then mistook the destroyer USS Sterett for a friendly ship and flashed its recognition signals. Sterett fired back, hitting Yūdachi's #1 boiler room, leaving the ship dead in the water. After Yūdachi was disabled, 207 survivors were removed by Samidare, which then failed to scuttle her with three torpedoes.[6] The abandoned hulk was later sunk by gunfire of Portland, southeast of Savo Island at position (09°14′S 159°52′ECoordinates: 09°14′S 159°52′E). According to James Hornfischer, Yūdachi was showing a white flag before Portland fired, but this was deliberately ignored by the American captain, who directed his gunnery officer to "sink the S.O.B." probably due to the Japanese shelling the helpless survivors of USS Gregory and USS Little.

Yukaze 1945

Description: Yūkaze (夕風 Evening Wind) was a Minekaze-class destroyer, built for the Imperial Japanese Navy immediately following World War I. Advanced for their time, these ships served as first-line destroyers through the 1930s, but were considered obsolescent by the start of the Pacific War.

Builder: Mitsubishi-Nagasaki, Japan
Laid down: 14 December 1920
Launched: 28 May 1921
Commissioned: 24 August 1921
Struck: 5 October 1945
Fate: Royal Navy 1947-later scrapped

At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Yūkaze was under Carrier Division 3 in the IJN 1st Fleet based at the Kure Naval District as part of the escort for the old aircraft carrier Hōshō. As such, the destroyer participated in the Battle of Midway.[5]

Afterwards, Hōshō was used to train naval aviators, remaining in the Inland Sea under the IJN 3rd Fleet, and Yūkaze continued to serve as the aircraft carrier's escort through the end of World War II.[6]

On 5 October 1945 Yūkaze was removed from navy list.[7]

After the war, Yūkaze was used as a repatriation vessel from October 1945 through August 1947, when the ship was turned over to the British Royal Navy as a prize of war in Singapore, where it was broken up for scrap.

Yukikaze 1945

Description: Le Yukikaze (« Vent de neige » en japonais) était un destroyer de Classe Kagerō de la marine impériale japonaise pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Il fut le seul bâtiment de cette classe à survivre à la guerre. Au début de la guerre, il a pris part à l'invasion des Philippines et des Indes Néerlandaises. Il a participé aux batailles de Midway, de Santa Cruz, du golfe de Leyte, de la mer des Philippines. Il a aussi pris part au renforcement de Guadalcanal, ainsi qu'aux batailles navales aux environs de l'île. Il a également survécu à l'Opération Ten-Gō c'est-à-dire l'attaque suicide infructueuse de plusieurs gros bâtiments contre les troupes américaines débarquées à Okinawa et au cours de laquelle le plus grand cuirassé du monde, le Yamato fut coulé. Entre ces batailles importantes, il a escorté des navires et ravitaillé des bases. Mais il a passé les derniers mois de la guerre dans un port.

À la suite de sa participation et de sa survie à certaines des batailles les plus dangereuses, le Yukikaze était très populaire au Japon où il était surnommé « l'insubmersible » ou « le bateau miracle ».

Après la guerre, il a été utilisé pour rapatrier des soldats japonais. Le Yukikaze et le Hibiki furent les seuls destroyers à survivre sur les 82 construits avant la guerre.

Yukikaze 1945

Yukikaze 1945 & Urakaze 1944

Description: Le Urakaze (浦風) était un destroyer de classe Kagerō en service de la Marine impériale japonaise pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
Le 9 juin 1944, il sauve 126 survivants du destroyer Tanikaze coulé par le sous-marin USS Harder, près de Tawitawi. Au cours de la bataille de la mer des Philippines, il sauve des survivants du porte-avions Shōkaku, coulé par le sous-marin USS Cavalla. Pendant le sauvetage, il est légèrement endommagé par une attaque de charges de profondeur lancées par un sous-marin.

Le 21 novembre 1944, l'Urakaze est torpillé et coulé avec la totalité de son équipage par le sous-marin USS Sealion, à 65 milles (104 km) au nord-nord-ouest de Keelung (Taïwan), à la position géographique 26° 09′ N, 121° 23′ E. Le sous-marin attaqua au même moment le cuirassé Kongō de deux torpilles, il chavira trois heures plus tard.

Yukikaze 1945 & Urakaze 1944

Yunagi 1944

Description: The Japanese destroyer Yūnagi (夕凪 Evening Calm) was one of nine Kamikaze-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the 1920s. During the Pacific War, she participated in the occupation of the Gilbert Islands and the Battle of Wake Island in December 1941 and then the occupations of New Guinea and the Solomon Islands in early 1942.

Builder: Sasebo Naval Arsenal
Laid down: 17 September 1923 as Destroyer No. 17
Launched: 23 April 1924
Completed: 24 May 1925
Renamed: Yūnagi, 1 August 1928

On 18 July 1944 Yūnagi was reassigned directly to the Combined Fleet. From 10–18 August 1944, she escorted a convoy from Moji via Mako towards Manila, but detached to Takao to assist the damaged transport Eiyō Maru. On her return from Takao to Manila, she was torpedoed and sunk 20 miles (32 km) north-northeast of Cape Bojeador, Luzon at coordinates 18°46′N 120°46′E by the submarine USS Picuda on 25 August 1944, with 32 crewmen killed and 19 wounded. Yūnagi was struck from the Navy List on 6 October 1944.

Fifth Carrier Division Carrier-Based Plane Set
Description:	This set contains parts for three complete 1/700-sale aircraft: a Mitsubishi A6M2 (Zeke) model 21, an Aichi D3A1 (Val) type 11, and a Nakajima B5N (Kate) type 97.

First Carrier Division Carrier-Based Plane Set
Description:	This kit provides parts for three complete 1/700-scale aircraft: a Mitsubishi A6M2 (Zeke) model 21, an Aichi D3A1 (Val) type 11, and a Nakajima B5N (Kate) type 97.

Fuso & Yamashiro: Nishimura Fleet
Description:	This is a high-quality kit set from Fujimi of the Nishimura Fleet Fuso and Yamashiro.

Hatsuzakura
Description:	Ship # Japanese name & translation Class Builder Laid down Launched Completed Fate 5522 Hatsuzakura (初櫻) Year's first cherry blossom Tachibana Yokosuka Naval Arsenal 4 December 1944 10 February 1945 18 May 1945 Delivered to Soviet Union on 29 July 1947 at Nakhodka, renamed Vetrenny and soon Vyrazitel'ny (Выразительный), converted to target ship TSL-26 (1949), scrapped in 1958.

Hiei 1942
Description:	Hiei Builder: Yokosuka Naval Arsenal Laid down: 4 November 1911 Launched: 21 November 1912 Commissioned: 4 August 1914 Fate: Sunk following the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal on November 14, 1942

Hiryu 1942
Description:	Hiryū (飛龍, "Flying Dragon") was an aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the 1930s. The only ship of her class, she was built to a modified Sōryū design. Builder: Yokosuka Naval Arsenal Laid down: 8 July 1936 Launched: 16 November 1937 Commissioned: 5 July 1939 Struck: 25 September 1942 Fate: Scuttled after the Battle of Midway, 5 June 1942

Japanese Naval Planes Late Pacific War
Description:	This set contains parts for three complete 1/700-sale aircraft: a Mitsubishi A6M2 (Zeke) model 21, an Aichi D3A1 (Val) type 11, and a Nakajima B5N (Kate) type 97.

Kaki
Description:	Name Builder Laid down Launched Completed Kaki (柿) Yokosuka Naval Arsenal 5 October 1944 11 December 1944 5 March 1945 Surrendered to United States on 4 July 1947 at Qingdao. Sunk as target off 35°29′N 123°35′E, 19 August 1947

Kongo & Haruna Set (IJN 2nd Fleet 3rd Squadron 1944)
Description:

Kyokuto Maru
Description:	The Kawasaki-type oiler (川崎型油槽船, Kawasaki-gata Yusōsen) was a type of oiler of Japan, serving during the 1930s and World War II. They do not have official class name. Subsidy # Name Builder Laid down Launched Completed 18 Kyokutō Maru (極東丸, 旭東丸?) [2] Kawasaki, Kōbe Shipyard 25 November 1933 11 October 1934 15 December 1934

Matsu
Description:	Ship # Japanese name & translation Class Builder Laid down Launched Completed Fate 5481 Matsu (松) Pine tree Matsu Maizuru Naval Arsenal 8 August 1943 3 February 1944 28 April 1944 Sunk on 4 August 1944 by US Navy ships 50 miles northwest by the Chichijima Islands (Ogasawara Islands)

Michishio
Description:	Michishio (満潮 Full Tide) was the third of ten Asashio-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Builder: Fujinagata Shipyards Laid down: 5 November 1935 Launched: 15 March 1937 Commissioned: 31 October 1937 Struck: 10 January 1945 Fate: Sunk at Battle of Surigao Strait, 25 October 1944

Mikura
Description:	Mikura (御蔵), constructed at Nihon Kōkan, Tsurumi, laid down on October 1, 1942, launched on July 16, 1943, and commissioned on October 30, 1943. Sunk by torpedoes from the USS Threadfin on March 28, 1945, with all 216 men aboard, after probably helping sink the USS Trigger.

Minoo 1945
Description:	Minoo (箕面) was a minelayer of the Imperial Japanese Navy, which was in service during the final stages of World War II. She was the lead ship of what was intended to be a two-vessel class, but her sister ship, designated Vessel #1822 was not completed before the end of the war.

Momi
Description:	Ship # Japanese name & translation Class Builder Laid down Launched Completed Fate 5489 Momi (樅) Abies firma Matsu Yokosuka Naval Arsenal 1 February 1944 16 June 1944 3 September 1944 Sunk on January 5, 1945 by US Navy carrier aircraft 28 miles west-southwest of Manila (on Luzon-in)

Mutsu & Nagato Set (Pacific War 1st Fleet, 1st Squadron)
Description:

Nankai
Description:	In 1941, Surabaya, Java, the Dutch minelayer REGULUS is laid down by Droogdok, Mij shipyard. In March 1942, a demolition party attempts to destroy the partially completed REGULUS to prevent her use by the Japanese, but fail. She was repaired and commissioned in the Japanese Navy as gunboat NANKAI. On 16th July 1945, US submarine Blenny (SS-324) sinks the Nankai, west of Surabaya, Java.

Nippon Maru
Description:	The Kawasaki-type oiler (川崎型油槽船, Kawasaki-gata Yusōsen) was a type of oiler of Japan, serving during the 1930s and World War II. Name Builder Laid down Launched Completed Owner Nippon Maru (日本丸?) Kawasaki, Kōbe Shipyard 18 October 1935 24 April 1936 30 June 1936 Yamashita Line 14 January 1944 Sunk by USS Scamp at southwest of Woleai

Notoro
Description:	Ship Builder Laid down Launched Notoro (能登呂) Kawasaki-Kōbe Shipyard 24 November 1919 17 July 1920 Completed 20 September 1920 Converted to seaplane tender, 1 June 1934. Scuttled off Singapore, 12 January 1947.

Radial Boat Davit Set for IJN Battle Ship & Cruiser
Description:

Sakura
Description:	Ship # Japanese name & translation Class Builder Laid down Launched Completed Fate 5496 Sakura (櫻) Cherry blossom Matsu Yokosuka Naval Arsenal 2 June 1944 6 September 1944 25 November 1944 Sunk by a mine in the port of Osaka 11 July 1945

Sanuki Maru
Description:	Sanuki maru IJN Auxiliary Seaplane tender. Completed in May 1939. Torpedoed on 28 Jan 1945 in Yellow Sea by USS Spadefish (SS-411).

Second Carrier Division Carrier-Based Plane Set
Description:	This kit contains parts for three complete 1/700-scale aircraft: a Mitsubishi A6M2 (Zeke) model 21, an Aichi D3A1 (Val) type 11, and a Nakajima B5N (Kate) type 97

Soryu 1941
Description:	Sōryū (蒼龍 Sōryū, meaning "Blue (or Green) Dragon") was an aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the mid-1930s. Builder: Kure Naval Arsenal Laid down: 20 November 1934 Launched: 23 December 1935 Commissioned: 29 January 1937 Struck: 10 August 1942 Fate: Scuttled after being heavily damaged by dive bombers at the Battle of Midway, 4 June 1942

Sumire
Description:	Name Builder Laid down Launched Completed Fate Sumire Ishikawajima Shipyards, Japan 24 November 1920 14 December 1921 31 March 1923 Decommissioned 1 February 1940; converted to training ship, re-converted to auxiliary ship Mitaka (三高?) 23 February 1945; scrapped 1948.

Suruga Maru 1943
Description:	Suruga Maru 1943-02-15 Torpedo Sunk Gato SS-212

Tama Maru
Description:	Date Name of Vessel Type of Vessel Standard Tonnage 4 JUL 44 TAMA MARU Passenger-Cargo 3,052 Location Flag of Agent Type of Agent Assessment 7-33N, 133-45E United States Submarine Sunk

Toamaru
Description:	Builder: Kawasaki Dockyard, Kobe Launched: 1934 Toa Maru No 2 is a World War II Japanese transport ship sunk by the American submarine USS Searaven (SS-196) off Gizo, Solomon Islands on 25 November 1943.

Type No.3 Submarine Chaser
Description:	I think you are confusing the type 51 class sub chasers no 51, no 52 an no 53 with the type 28 class subchasers no 51, no. 52 and no. 53. The type 51 class sub chasers were built prewar. The class was renamed in type 251 in 1943 and the ships are renumbered in no 251, no. 252 and no. 253. Thereafter the type 28 class sub chasers no. 51. no. 52 and no. 53 were built.

Type No.51 Submarine Chaser
Description:	Ship # Ship Builder Completed #451 No.51 Kawanami Kōgyō 8 November 1943 Decommissioned on 15 September 1945. Scrapped on 1 August 1948.