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Yaeyama during trials, 1932
History Japan Name Yaeyama Ordered fiscal 1927 Builder Kure Naval Arsenal Laid down 2 August 1930 Launched 13 October 1931 Commissioned 31 August 1932 Stricken 10 November 1944 Fate Sunk in action, 24 September 1944 General characteristics Type minelayer Displacement 1,135 long tons (1,153 t ) standard, 1380 tons normal Length
85.5 m (281 ft ) pp
89 m (292 ft ) waterline
Beam 10.65 m (34 ft 11 in ) Draught 2.84 m (9 ft 4 in ) Propulsion 2-shaft steam engine, 2 boilers, 4,800 hp (3,600 kW ) Speed 20 knots (23 mph; 37 km/h)Range 3,000 nmi (5,600 km ) at 14 knots Complement 180 Armament
Armour none
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.[1] Yaeyama Islands in the Ryukyu Islands chain. She was the first Japanese warship built with an all-welded hull.[2]
Background and construction
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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 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.[3]
Operational history
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On completion, Yaeyama was assigned to the Sasebo Naval District . In August 1937, following the Marco Polo Bridge Incident and the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War , Yaeyama was assigned as flagship for Admiral Tanimoto’s 11th Gunboat Division, at Shanghai and was responsible for patrols on the Yangzi River . Yaeyama covered the landing of Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces (SNLF) reinforcements in the Battle of Shanghai , and participated in the evacuation of 20,000 Japanese civilians and non-combatants from the city back to Japan. She was then placed on the reserve list on 1 December 1937.[4]
Yaeyama was reactivated on 25 May 1938 and assisted in covering the landings of more Japanese troops in Tianjin and along the Yangzi River in July. She was then assigned to Amoy from 26 September 1939 until her transfer to Palau on 1 December 1941.
At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Yaeyama was assigned to “Operation M” (the invasion of the southern Philippines ) deploying from Palau to mine the Surigao Strait . On 3 January 1942, she became flagship for Admiral Rokuzo Sugiyama’s Third Southern Expeditionary Fleet and covered landings at Subic Bay . While at Subic May on 1 February, she was attacked unsuccessfully by USS PT-32 . Yaeyama was based at Manila from July 1942 under the overall command of the Southwest Area Fleet .[3] [5]
Yaeyama was refit at Cavite Naval Yards as an anti-submarine convoy escort ship in December 1943, with all minelaying rails removed and replaced by 36 depth charges , and was reassigned to the First Southern Expeditionary Fleet. She escorted a convoy of transports from Manila to Singapore in January 1944, and a convoy from Manila to Halmahera Island in May 1944.[3]
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 / 12.250°N 121.000°E / 12.250; 121.000 [3] [6]
Yaeyama was removed from the navy list on 10 November 1944.[3]
Citations
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^ Jentsura, Hansgeorg (1976). Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869-1945 . Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-893-X
^ Watts, Anthony J (1967). Japanese Warships of World War II . Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-3850-9189-3
^ a b c d e Nevitt, Allyn D. (1999). "IJN Yaeyama : Tabular Record of Movement" . Long Lancers . Combinedfleet.com.
^ Monograph 144 Chapter II
^ Captain Robert J. Bulkley Jr. (6 November 2015). At Close Quarters; PT Boats In The United States Navy ISBN 978-1-78625-206-7
^ Brown, David (1990). Warship Losses of World War Two . Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-914-X
References
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Brown, David (1990). Warship Losses of World War Two . Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-914-X
Howarth, Stephen (1983). The Fighting Ships of the Rising Sun: The Drama of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1895-1945 . Atheneum. ISBN 0-689-11402-8
Jentsura, Hansgeorg (1976). Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869-1945 . US Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-893-X
Watts, Anthony J (1967). Japanese Warships of World War II . Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-3850-9189-3
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Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in September 1944
Shipwrecks
1 Sep: HMS Hurst Castle , Kehdingen U-247
2 Sep: Empire Curzon U-394
5 Sep: U-362
7 Sep: Shinyō Maru incident ), Westfalen
8 Sep: Rex
9 Sep: Sava U-484
10 Sep: U-20 U-23
11 Sep: Giulio Cesare U-19
12 Sep: Korei Maru Nankai Maru USS Noa , Rakuyō Maru Shikinami
13 Sep: USS Perry , USS Warrington
14 Sep: Irene Oldendorff
16 Sep: I-364
17 Sep: Un'yō
18 Sep: Dr. Heinrich Wiegand Gyōkū Maru Jun'yō Maru
19 Sep: Isoshima U-407 U-867
21 Sep: China Maru Hōfuku Maru Katsuriki Noshiro Maru Satsuki
22 Sep: Drache
23 Sep: Taranto U-859
24 Sep: Akitsushima Siberia Maru T-120 Yaeyama
25 Sep: USS Miantonomah
26 Sep: Aotaka Ro-47 Saga U-871
27 Sep: HMS Rockingham , Ural Maru
28 Sep: Dragoner
29 Sep: U-863
30 Sep: U-565 U-596 U-1062
Unknown date: U-703 U-855 U-865 U-921
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