KAIBOKAN!

(Type C Escort by Takeshi Yuki scanned from "Color Paintings of Japanese Warships")

IJN Escort CD-95:
Tabular Record of Movement

© 2009 Bob Hackett, Sander Kingsepp and Peter Cundall


27 November 1944:
Tsurumi, Yokohama. Laid down at Nippon Kokan K. K.’s shipyard.

14 April 1945:
Launched and numbered CD-95.

4 July 1945:
Completed and registered in the IJN.

5 July 1945:
Tsurumi harbor. CD-95 is damaged by marine casualty.

8 July 1945:
Yokosuka. While sweeping for mines inside the harbor, CD-95 strikes a mine and is heavily damaged. Later, she is deemed unfit for service.

15 September 1945:
Removed from the Navy List.

29 July 1948:
Scrapped.


Authors' Note:
Thanks go to Dr. Higuchi Tatsuhiro of Japan.

-Bob Hackett and Peter Cundall.


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