Japanese minelayer Yaeyama
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The Japanese minelayer Yaeyama operated on the Yangtze river with the 11th Sentai duhttp://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/button_italic.png Italic textring the Battle of Shanghai in 1937. It was the flagship of 11th Sentai during the operations on the Yangtze during the early Second Sino-Japanese War.
Yaeyama served throughout World War II, finally being sunk by air attack while anchored in Coron Bay, Busuanga Island, off Palawan Island in the Philippines by aircraft from the carriers U.S.S. Intrepid and U.S.S. Lexington and the light carrier U.S.S. Cabot on 24 September 1944.
Armament: 2 x 12cm(4.7-inch) gun, 2 x 13.2mm MGs, 185 mines
Commanding Officers
Chief Equipping Officer - Cmdr. Tatsuo Hozumi - 1 June 1932 - 31 August 1932
Cmdr. Tatsuo Hozumi - 31 August 1932 - 15 November 1933
Cmdr. Kyuji Kubo - 15 November 1933 - 15 November 1934
Cmdr. Gensuke Tsuda - 15 November 1934 - 7 October 1935
Cmdr. / Capt. Sadachika Miyamoto - 7 October 1935 - 1 December 1936 (Promoted to Captain on 1 December 1936.)
Cmdr. / Capt. Ryuji Nakazato - 1 December 1936 - 1 December 1937 (Promoted to Captain on 1 December 1937.)
Capt. Shingo Ishikawa - 1 December 1937 - 10 January 1938
Capt. Ryuji Nakazato - 10 January 1938 - 25 May 1938
Capt. Tokuji Mori - 25 May 1938 - 15 December 1938
Capt. Tametsugu Okada - 15 December 1938 - 15 October 1939
Cmdr. / Capt. Ichiro Aitoku - 15 October 1939 - 10 June 1940 (Promoted to Captain on 15 November 1939.)
Capt. Katsuzo Akiyama - 10 June 1940 - 20 July 1940
Capt. Kamenosuke Yamamori - 20 July 1940 - 1 November 1940
Cmdr. / Capt. Shigezo Kawai - 1 November 1940 - 10 May 1941 (Promoted to Captain on 15 November 1940.)
Capt. Minoru Noumi - 10 May 1941 - 12 September 1941
Capt. Hisayuki Fukuda - 12 September 1941 - 7 May 1943
Capt. Michinao Tsutsumi - 7 May 1943 - 24 September 1944
[edit] Sources
- IJN Minelayer YAEYAMA with picture
- Monograph 144 Chapter II
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