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Yamashio Maru-class escort carrier

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Construction
Operational history
Photo
See also
Notes
Bibliography
External links

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The Yamashio Maru class ({{lang-ja|山汐丸}}) consisted of a pair of auxiliary escort carriers operated by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. They were converted from tankers. Only the name ship was completed during the war and she was sunk by American aircraft before she could be used.

Construction

In 1944, the Japanese Army, which had already converted two passenger liners into combined assault ship and aircraft carriers, decided to acquire its own escort carriers to provide aerial anti-submarine cover for troop convoys. It therefore chartered two partly built Type 2TL Tankers, Yamashio Maru and Chigusa Maru, for conversion to auxiliary escort carriers.^[1]

The conversion was extremely simple, with a {{convert|107|m|ftin|adj=on}}-long flush flight deck added. There was no hangar, the ship's eight Ki-76s being stored on deck. Defensive armament consisted of sixteen 25 mm anti-aircraft guns, with a depth charge projector forward.^[2]

Operational history

Yamashio Maru commissioned on 27 January 1945, was sunk at Yokohama harbor by US aircraft on 17 February 1945.^[2]^[3] Plans were drawn up for conversion to a coal-burning freighter,^[1] but she was never used as a carrier. Her sister ships, Chigusa Maru and Zuiun Maru, were incomplete when Japan surrendered and served after the war as tankers:^[2]

Chigusa Maru was sunk in 1945. The ship was repaired as tanker in 1945 and scrapped in Sasebo in June 1963. Zuiun Maru was scrapped in Oskata on 15 June 1964.

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Notes

1. ^¹Gardiner and Chesneau, p. 213
2. ^¹²Chesneau, p. 186
3. ^{{cite web|title=The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II|url=http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/USN-Chron/USN-Chron-1945.html|accessdate=21 December 2012}}

Bibliography

{{cite book|last=Chesneau|first=Roger|title=Aircraft Carriers of the World, 1914 to the Present: An Illustrated Encyclopedia|edition=New, revised|year=1995|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, Maryland|isbn=0-87021-902-2}}
{{cite book|title=Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922-1946|editor1-last=Chesneau|editor1-first=Roger|publisher=Conway Maritime Press|location=Greenwich, UK|year=1980|isbn=0-85177-146-7}}
{{cite book|last=Fukui|first=Shizuo|title=Japanese Naval Vessels at the End of World War II|publisher=Greenhill Books|location=London|date=1991|isbn=1-85367-125-8}}
{{cite book| last = Jentschura| first = Hansgeorg| first2 = Dieter |last2=Jung|first3=Peter |last3=Mickel| year = 1977| title = Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869–1945| publisher = United States Naval Institute| location = Annapolis, Maryland| isbn =0-87021-893-X}}
{{cite book|last1=Polmar|first1=Norman|last2=Genda |first2=Minoru |authorlink2=Minoru Genda|title=Aircraft Carriers: A History of Carrier Aviation and Its Influence on World Events|publisher=Potomac Books|location=Washington, D.C.|year=2006|volume=Volume 1, 1909–1945|isbn=1-57488-663-0}}

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20100322043006/http://candamo.iespana.es/japon/barcos/iportaesc.htm Escort Aircraft Carriers]

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