Japanese escort ship Aguni
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Name: | Aguni |
Builder: | Nihon Kokan, Tsurumi |
Launched: | 21 September 1944 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement: | 940 tons |
Length: | 78,8 meters |
Beam: | 9 meters |
Draught: | 3 meters |
Propulsion: | diesels, 4200 bhp |
Speed: | 19,5 knots |
Complement: | 150 |
Armament: | 3 x 120mm 6 x 25mm Type AA guns depth charges |
Aguni was an escort ship of the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second World War.[1] She was named after the Aguni Islands. The ship was heavily damaged by a U.S. Bat radar-guided glide bomb on 27 May 1945.[2]