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]

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