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Hiburi-class Escort Ship
The was a design development from the s of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), serving during and after World War II. Background In the Rapid Naval Armaments Supplement Programme of 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy ordered the construction of thirty escort vessels (''kaibōkan'') – designated as #310 to #339 of that Programme, to provide escort ships for the Navy. Fourteen of these were planned as (''Escort ship Type-A'') of 860 tons standard displacement and sixteen as (''Escort ship Type-B'') of 940 tons, although in the Budget (for which 153,360,000 yen was provided for the ships, or 5,112,000 per ship) they were all stated to be of 1,200 tons. However, three of the ''Mikura'' class (ships #328, #333 and #339) were subsequently designated as to be built to the ''Hiburi'' design. In the next year's Modified 5th Naval Armaments Supplement Programme, the IJN ordered the construction of another thirty-four ships to a modified version () of the Type-B design; these were desig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yamato Museum
The is the nickname of the in Kure, Hiroshima, Japan. History The museum opened on April 23, 2005. It is nicknamed the Yamato Museum due to the display in the lobby of a 1/10 scale model of the battleship ''Yamato'', the flagship of the Japanese Combined Fleet in World War II. It was sunk south of the Japanese island of Kyushu in 1945. The museum is located where the battleship was completed. Museum Exhibition rooms *Yamato Hiroba – 1/10 scale of the *History of Kure – as the shipbuilding, port city and the Kure Naval District *Large objects exhibition room - containing: ** A Mitsubishi A6M Zero model 62 ** A Kaiten human torpedo ** A Kairyū-class submarine ** A Type 95 torpedo ** Various shells, shell replicas, and shell elements from IJN warships, ranging from the to the calibers, and of the armor-piercing, high-explosive, and anti-aircraft types. **1:1 replica of a 46 cm/45 Type 94 naval gun breech. *1:1 replica of one of the battleship Kongō's boile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modified 5th Naval Armaments Supplement Programme
The was one of the wartime armaments expansion plans of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). Background In September 1942, after being defeated in the Battle of Midway, the IJN drew up a new armaments expansion plan. This plan was combined by the 5th Naval Armaments Supplement Programme and the 6th Naval Armaments Supplement Programme to build the aircraft carriers rapidly. The main article was to build 20 aircraft carriers, and removed all battleships and heavy cruisers. They had approved 412 vessels, 1,150,000 tons. However, most of plans were not achieved. Until the end of the war only 60 vessels from this plan were completed. Table of vessels See also *1st Naval Armaments Supplement Programme (Maru 1 Keikaku, 1931) * 2nd Naval Armaments Supplement Programme (Maru 2 Keikaku, 1934) *3rd Naval Armaments Supplement Programme (Maru 3 Keikaku, 1937) * 4th Naval Armaments Supplement Programme (Maru 4 Keikaku, 1939) *Temporal Naval Armaments Supplement Programme (Maru Rin Keikaku, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hainan
Hainan is an island provinces of China, province and the southernmost province of China. It consists of the eponymous Hainan Island and various smaller islands in the South China Sea under the province's administration. The name literally means "South of the Sea". The province has a land area of , of which Hainan Island is and the rest is over 200 islands scattered across three archipelagos: Zhongsha Islands, Zhongsha, Xisha Islands, Xisha and Nansha Islands, Nansha. It was part of Guangdong from 1950 to 1988, after which it was made a province of its own and was designated as a special economic zones of China, special economic zone by Deng Xiaoping, as part of the Chinese economic reform program. The Han Han Chinese, Chinese population, who compose a majority of the population at 82%, speak a wide variety of languages including Standard Chinese, Hainanese, Hainam Min, Yue Chinese, Cantonese, Hakka Chinese, etc. Indigenous peoples such as the Hlai people, Hlai, a Kra–Dai l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Hoe (SS-258)
USS ''Hoe'' (SS-258), a ''Gato''-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the hoe, one of various sharks, especially the dogfish. Construction and commissioning ''Hoe''s keel was laid down by the Electric Boat Company at Groton, Connecticut, on 2 January 1942. She was launched on 17 September 1942, sponsored by Miss Helen Hess, and commissioned on 16 December 1942. First and second war patrols, May – October 1943 After shakedown, ''Hoe'' sailed 19 April 1943 via the Panama Canal to Pearl Harbor, where she arrived 15 May. She departed on her first combat war patrol 27 May, and patrolled the Guam-Palaus area. ''Hoe'' damaged two freighters before returning 11 July to Pearl Harbor via Ulithi and Midway Atoll. ''Hoes second patrol, conducted west of Truk, was marred by considerable engine trouble. The submarine departed 21 August, damaged one tanker, and eluded several depth charge attacks before returning to Pearl Harbor 18 October 1943. She a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pulau Ujong
Singapore Island, also known as mainland Singapore and Pulau Ujong, is the main constituent island of the sovereign island country and city-state of the Republic of Singapore. It is located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, between the Straits of Malacca and the South China Sea. The Singapore Strait lies to the south, while the Johor Strait lies to the north. The island forms the bulk of the country in terms of area, population, and prominence since areas situated on the country's smaller islands consist of military or industrial areas, except for Sentosa and Ubin Islands. As of 2023, Singapore's population stood close to six million, and the mainland has a land area of approximately . Etymology Temasek was the early recorded name of a settlement on the site of today's Singapore, although the island itself wasn't specifically defined. Meanwhile, ''Pulau Ujong'' was one of the earliest references to Singapore Island. The 3rd-century Chinese reference to ''Pú Lu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Escort Ship Shōnan
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Tsushima Strait
or Eastern Channel (; ''Dongsuro'') is a channel of the Korea Strait, which lies between Korea and Japan, connecting the Sea of Japan, the Yellow Sea, and the East China Sea. The strait is the channel to the east and southeast of Tsushima Island, with the Japanese islands of Honshu to the east and northeast, and Kyushu and the Gotō Islands to the south and southeast. It is narrowest south-east of Shimono-shima, the south end of Tsushima Island proper, constricted there by nearby Iki Island, which lies wholly in the strait near the tip of Honshu. South of that point Japan's Inland Sea mingles its waters through the narrow Kanmon Strait between Honshu and Kyushu, with those of the Eastern Channel, making for some of the busiest sea lanes in the world. The Strait was the site of the last and most decisive naval battle in the Russo-Japanese War, the Battle of Tsushima, between the Japanese and Russian navies in 1905, in which the Russian fleet was virtually destroyed.100 Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daitō Islands
The are an archipelago consisting of three isolated coral islands, administered by Japan, in the Philippine Sea southeast of Okinawa Prefecture, Okinawa. The islands have a total area of and a population of 2,107. Administratively, the whole group belongs to Shimajiri District, Okinawa, Shimajiri District of Okinawa Prefecture, and is divided between the villages of Minamidaitō, Okinawa, Minamidaitō and Kitadaitō, Okinawa, Kitadaitō, with uninhabited Okidaitōjima island administered as part of Kitadaitō municipality, although physically located closer to Minamidaitōjima. Etymology ''Kita'', ''minami'', and ''oki'' means, respectively, "north", "south", and "offshore" while ''daitō'' means "great east". History These islands have long been known in Okinawa as ''Ufuagari'' (“the Great East”). Okidaitōjima was first sighted by the Spanish Empire, Spanish Spanish explorers, explorer Bernardo de la Torre on 25 September 1543 during a failed attempt to find a northern r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Escort Ship Daitō
Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspora, Japanese emigrants and their descendants around the world * Japanese citizens, nationals of Japan under Japanese nationality law ** Foreign-born Japanese, naturalized citizens of Japan * Japanese writing system, consisting of kanji and kana * Japanese cuisine, the food and food culture of Japan See also * List of Japanese people * * Japonica (other) * Japanese studies , sometimes known as Japanology in Europe, is a sub-field of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on Japan. It incorporates fields such as the study of Japanese language, history, culture, litera ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manila
Manila, officially the City of Manila, is the Capital of the Philippines, capital and second-most populous city of the Philippines after Quezon City, with a population of 1,846,513 people in 2020. Located on the eastern shore of Manila Bay on the island of Luzon, it is classified as a Cities of the Philippines#Independent cities, highly urbanized city. With , Manila is one of the world's List of cities proper by population density, most densely populated cities proper. Manila was the first chartered city in the country, designated bPhilippine Commission Act No. 183on July 31, 1901. It became autonomous with the passage of Republic Act No. 409, "The Revised Charter of the City of Manila", on June 18, 1949. Manila is considered to be part of the world's original set of global cities because its commercial networks were the first to extend across the Pacific Ocean and connect Asia with the Hispanic America, Spanish Americas through the Manila galleon, galleon trade. This marked t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Harder (SS-257)
USS ''Harder'' (SS-257), a Gato class submarine, ''Gato''-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the Harder (fish), harder, a fish of the mullet (fish), mullet family found off South Africa. One of the most famous submarines of World War II, she received the Presidential Unit Citation (US), Presidential Unit Citation. Her commanding officer throughout her service, the resolute and resourceful Commander (United States), Commander Samuel D. Dealey (1906–1944), "a submariner's submariner", was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, as well as four Navy Crosses during his lifetime. Construction and commissioning ''Harder''s keel was Keel-laying, laid down by the Electric Boat Company in Groton, Connecticut, Groton, Connecticut, on 1 December 1941. She was Ceremonial ship launching, launched on 19 August 1942, sponsored by Miss Helen M. Shafroth, daughter of Rear admiral (United States), Rear Admiral John F. Shafroth Jr., and Ship commissio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
