Akitsushima (秋津洲) was a seaplanetender of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), serving during World War II from 1942 until being sunk in September 1944....
helicopter repair ships. Examples of seaplanetenders include: HMAS Albatross (Australia, 1928) Akitsushima (Japan, served from 1942 until sunken in 1944)...
(能登呂) was an oiler of the Imperial Japanese Navy commissioned in 1920, which was rebuilt in 1924 into a seaplanetender and in 1941 back into an oiler. She...
scrapped in 1927 JapaneseseaplanetenderAkitsushima was a seaplanetender or carrier, which was completed in 1942 and sunk in 1944 The Japan Coast Guard's...
of seaplane carriers by country includes seaplane carriers and tenders organized by country of origin and service. HMAS Albatross: seaplanetender in...
Grain") was a seaplane carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. The ship was built at Kawasaki Shipbuilding at Kobe, Japan, and was completed...
Nisshin (日進) was a seaplanetender (AV) of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. She was built at Kure Naval Arsenal from 1938 to 1942 and was...
and struck in 1929 Japanese seaplane tender Chihaya was an Akitsushima-class seaplanetender which was scrapped incomplete on slip after 1942 JS Chihaya...
This List of Japanese Naval ships and war vessels in World War II is a list of seafaring vessels of the Imperial Japanese Navy of World War II. It includes...
30 U.S. Navy carrier aircraft from Task Force 38 sink the JapaneseseaplanetenderAkitsushima in Coron Bay off Coron Island in the Philippine Islands with...
attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Iwabuchi was captain of the seaplanetenderAkitsushima. He was reassigned to the staff of the Combined Fleet on 25 March...
the Imperial Japanese Navy, "Kaijinsha"., (Japan), March 1997 The Maru Special, Japanese Naval Vessels No.29, Japanese submarine tenders w/ auxiliary...
submarine tenders operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy, from the 1920s through World War II. She was the first purpose-built submarine tender in the Imperial...
the Shortlands–Buka–Rabaul–Kavieng sector. While escorting the seaplanetenderAkitsushima, she attacked the submarine USS Guardfish but was in turn torpedoed...
Another name for Japan:Shikishima) was the lead ship of her class of two pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy by British shipyards...
Gakken (Japan) The Maru Special series, Ushio Shobō Daiji Katagiri, Ship Name Chronicles of the Imperial Japanese Navy Combined Fleet, Kōjinsha (Japan), June...
December by Sealion. The Maru Special, Japanese Naval Vessels No.34 Japanese Auxiliary ships, Ushio Shobō (Japan), December 1979, Book code 68343-34 Collection...
invasion of the Japanese home islands, the Imperial Japanese Navy saw the need to block the entrances to the Sea of Japan to protect Japan’s relatively lightly...