Japanese escort shipNo.23
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Name | CD-23 |
Builder | Nihonkai Dock Company[1] |
Laid down | 10 February 1944[1] |
Launched | 20 May 1944[1] |
Completed | 15 September 1944[1] |
Commissioned | 15 September 1944[1] |
Stricken | 10 March 1945[1] |
Fate | Sunk by air attack on 12 January 1945[1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Type C escort ship |
Displacement | 745 long tons (757 t) (standard) |
Length | 67.5 m (221 ft 5 in) |
Beam | 8.4 m (27 ft 7 in) |
Draught | 2.9 m (9 ft 6 in) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph) |
Range | 6,500nmi(12,000 km; 7,500 mi) at 14 kn (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
Complement | 136 |
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CD-23was aC Typeescort ship (Kaibōkan) of theImperial Japanese Navyduring theSecond World War.
History
[edit]CD-23was laid down by the Nihonkai Dock Company on 10 February 1944, launched on 20 May 1944, and completed and commissioned on 15 September 1944.[1]During the warCD-23was mostly busy on escort duties.[1]
On 12 January 1945, while on convoy duty north ofQui Nhon(14°15′N109°10′E/ 14.250°N 109.167°E),CD-23was attacked and sunk by planes from the aircraft carriersUSSEssex,USSTiconderoga,USSLangleyandUSSSan Jacintowhich were part of Rear AdmiralFrederick C. Sherman's Task Group 38.3 that hadentered the South China Sea to raid Japanese shipping.[1][2]155 of her crew were killed.[1]
CD-23was struck from the Navy List on 10 March 1945.[1]
References
[edit]Additional sources
[edit]- "Escort Vessels of the Imperial Japanese Navy special issue".Ships of the World(in Japanese). Vol. 45. Kaijinsha. February 1996.
- Model Art Extra No.340, Drawings of Imperial Japanese Naval Vessels Part-1(in Japanese). Model Art Co. Ltd. October 1989.
- The Maru Special, Japanese Naval Vessels No.49, Japanese submarine chasers and patrol boats(in Japanese). Ushio Shobō. March 1981.