© 2006-2013 Bob Hackett, Sander Kingsepp and Peter Cundall
Revision 2
21 August 1944:
Osaka. Laid down at Hitachi Zosen Co., Ltd's Sakurajima shipyard.
31 October 1944:
Launched and named SHISAKA.
15 December 1944:
Completed and registered in the Yokosuka Naval
District. Attached to the Kure Guard Unit.
16 December 1944:
Departs Osaka.
18-23 December 1944:
Arrives at Kure and begins training.
24 December 1944:
Arrives at Saeki.
26 January 1945:
Completes training.
31 January 1945:
Departs Kure.
2 February 1945:
Arrives at Yokosuka
after an air raid.
26 February 1945:
Departs Yokohama escorting ferry SEIKAN MARU No. 9.
27 February 1945:
Off Katsuura, Chiba, near Tokyo. In thick fog, SEIKAN MARU No. 9 runs aground and sinks. SHISAKA rescues her crew and takes them to Tateyama, SE of Tokyo.
1 March 1945:
Departs Tateyama.
2 March 1945:
Arrives at Yokosuka.
8 March 1945:
Arrives at Hachijo Jima, S of Tokyo.
10 March 1945:
Arrives at Yokosuka.
20 March 1945:
Departs Yokosuka with auxiliary submarine chaser SEKI MARU No. 2 escorting convoy No. 3320 consisting of KYUSHU, TOKO MARUs and NANYO MARU No. 1.
21 March 1945:
Arrives at Hachijo Jima.
24 March 1945:
Departs Hachijo Jima escorting a convoy consisting of NANYO MARU No. 1.
25 March 1945:
Arrives at Tateyama.
1 April 1945:
Departs Yokosuka. During the month, conducts
antisubmarine operations in Tokyo Bay with stops at Shimoda, Hachijo Jima and Yokohama.
2 April 1945:
Arrives at Shimoda.
3 April 1945:
Departs Shimoda escorting UNYO MARU No. 6 and later that day arrives at Hachijo Jima.
4 April 1945:
Departs Hachijo Jima escorting UNYO MARU No. 6 and later that day arrives at Shimoda.
5 April 1945:
Departs Shimoda escorting TOKO MARU and later that day arrives at Hachijo Jima.
7 April 1945:
Departs Hachijo Jima with kaibokan CD-74 escorting NIKKO MARU No. 2. At 2030 NIKKO MARU No. 2 breaks down and is taken in tow by SHISAKA.
8 April 1945:
Arrives at Tateyama.
9 April 1945:
Departs Tateyama.
10 April 1945:
Arrives at Yokohama.
12 April 1945:
Transfers from Yokohama to Yokosuka.
13 April 1945:
Departs Yokosuka.
16 April 1945:
Arrives at Yokosuka.
21 April 1945:
Drydocked. Undergoes repairs and servicing.
6 May 1945:
Undocked. Departs Yokosuka.
17 May 1945:
Arrives at Uraga.
18 May 1945:
Departs Uraga and arrives at Yokosuka.
20 May 1945:
Drydocked. Undergoes system repairs.
24 June 1945:
SHISAKA departs Yokosuka with subchaser CH-51 for
Hakodate, Hokkaido escorting convoy No. 1624 consisting of EIKAN and KAMITSU
MARUs and fleet supply ship SOYA. The ships are loaded with heavy industrial machinery from the Tokyo Yokahama industrial complex. The machinery's final
destination is Manchukuo (Manchuria).
26 June 1945:
S of Todogasaki, Honshu. At 1030, LtCdr (later Rear Admiral) Woodrow W. McCrory‘s USS PARCHE (SS-384) torpedoes and sinks KAMITSU MARU at 39-25N, 142-04E. McCrory also torpedoes EIKAN MARU. She takes on a twenty degree list to
port and is run aground. The escorts counter-attack. USS PARCHE fires a Mark 27 “Cutie” acoustic homing torpedo at subchaser CH-51, but misses. SHISAKA and CH-51 drop 67 depth-charges. USS PARCHE sustains slight damage, but escapes. [1]
15 June 1944:
Reassigned to the First Special Attack Squadron.
2 July 1945:
Arrives at Yokosuka.
4 July 1945:
Arrives at Nagaura, Port of Yokosuka.
15 August 1945:
Yokosuka. SHISAKA’s crew is notified of the termination of the war.
15 September 1945:
Removed from the Navy List.
1 April 1946:
Assigned to the Allied Repatriation Service as a special cargo ship.
Departs Uraga on her first repatriation voyage. [1]
6 April 1946:
Arrives at Guam. Embarks troops and passengers to be repatriated and departs later that day.
10 April 1946:
Arrives at Rabaul. Embarks troops and passengers to be repatriated.
13 April 1946:
Departs Rabaul.
23 April 1946:
Arrives at Uraga. Disembarks troops and passengers.
25 April 1946:
Undergoes repairs at Uraga.
10 May 1946:
Completes repairs.
15 May 1946:
Departs Uraga.
23 May 1946:
Arrives at Saigon. Embarks troops and passengers to be repatriated.
28 May 1946:
Departs Saigon.
31 May 1946:
Arrives at Bangkok. Embarks troops and passengers to be repatriated.
1 June 1946:
Departs Bangkok.
11 June 1946:
Arrives at Uraga. Disembarks troops and passengers.
19 June 1946:
Undergoes repairs at Uraga.
22 June 1946:
Completes repairs.
9 July 1946:
Departs Kagoshima.
12 July 1946:
Arrives at Korojima, near Tsientsin. Embarks troops and passengers to be repatriated.
14 July 1946:
Departs Korojima.
17 July 1946:
Arrives at Hakata. Disembarks troops and passengers.
25 July 1946:
Undergoes repairs at Tsurumi.
9 August 1946:
Completes repairs.
5 September 1946:
Departs Kagoshima.
7 September 1946:
Arrives at Okinawa. Embarks troops and passengers to be repatriated and departs later that day.
9 September 1946:
Arrives at Kagoshima. Disembarks troops and passengers.
27 September 1946:
Departs Kagoshima.
29 September 1946:
Arrives at Miyakoshima. Embarks troops and passengers to be repatriated.
1 October 1946:
Departs Miyakoshima.
3 October 1946:
Arrives at Kagoshima. Disembarks troops and passengers.
10 October 1946:
Departs Kagoshima.
11 October 1946:
Arrives at Okinawa. Embarks troops and passengers to be repatriated.
13 October 1946:
Departs Okinawa.
15 October 1946:
Arrives at Kagoshima. Disembarks troops and passengers.
17 October 1946:
Departs Kagoshima.
18 October 1946:
Arrives at Okinawa. Embarks troops and passengers to be repatriated and departs later that day.
20 October 1946:
Arrives at Kagoshima. Disembarks troops and passengers.
24 October 1946:
Departs Kagoshima.
26 October 1946:
Arrives at Okinawa. Embarks troops and passengers to be repatriated and departs later that day.
27 October 1946:
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rrives at Kagoshima. Disembarks troops and passengers.
31 October 1946:
Departs Kagoshima.
2 November 1946:
Arrives at Okinawa. Embarks troops and passengers to be repatriated and departs later that day.
4 November 1946:
Arrives at Kagoshima. Disembarks troops and passengers.
14 November 1946:
Arrives at Kagoshima. Disembarks troops and passengers.
16 November 1946:
Arrives at Okinawa. Embarks troops and passengers to be repatriated.
17 November 1946:
Departs Okinawa.
18 November 1946:
Arrives at Kagoshima. Disembarks troops and passengers.
22 November 1946:
Departs Kagoshima.
23 November 1946:
Arrives at Okinawa. Embarks troops and passengers to be repatriated and departs later that day.
25 November 1946:
Arrives at Kagoshima. Disembarks troops and passengers.
7 December 1946:
Departs Kagoshima.
8 December 1946:
Arrives at Okinawa.
9 December 1946:
Departs Okinawa.
10 December 1946:
Arrives at Kagoshima. Disembarks troops and passengers. Relieved of demobilization transport duties that same day.
15 December 1946:
Assigned to the Allied Repatriation Service as a special storage warship.
6 July 1947:
Shanghai. Ceded to the Republic of China (Taiwan) as a war reparation. Renamed HUI AN.
1949:
Taken over by the communist People's Republic of China.
1955:
Demilitarized.
Author’s Note:
[1] On 28 June 1945, unloading of EIKAN MARU was undertaken by her crew, aided by local inhabitants. By 10 July, one-quarter of her cargo was moved ashore, but carrier-based aircraft raided the area, so the ship was abandoned.
[2] Allied occupation forces were responsible for the return of six million Japanese military personnel and civilians from Japan's defunct far-flung Empire. In addition, there were over a million Korean and about 40,000 Chinese prisoners and conscript laborers and approximately 7,000 Formosans and 15,000 Ryukyu Islanders to be repatriated.
Some Allied and many former IJN warships, from aircraft carriers to kaibokan, were used to facilitate the enormous repatriation effort. Japanese vessels and crews were used to the fullest extent possible to conserve Allied manpower and accelerate demobilization. Each ex-IJN ship first had to be demilitarized; guns removed or, in the case of large warships, barrels severed, ammunition landed, and radar and catapults removed, if fitted. Repatriation of the Chinese on Japanese ships began early in October from Hakata, but U.S. guard detachments had to be placed on many ships to prevent disorder because the Japanese crews could not control the returnees.
Japanese-run repatriation centers were established at Kagoshima, Hario near Sasebo, and Hakata near Fukuoka. Other reception centers were established and operated at Maizuru, Shimonoseki, Sasebo, Senzaki, Kure, Uraga, Yokohama, Moji and Hakodate. Allied line and medical personnel supervised the centers. Incoming Japanese were sprayed with DDT, examined and inoculated for typhus and smallpox, provided with food, and transported to his final destination in Japan.
Thanks go to Dr. Higuchi Tatsuhiro of Japan and Mr. Gilbert Casse of France.
-Bob Hackett, Sander Kingsepp and Peter Cundall.
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