Japanese cruiser Tama

, in the Japanese 5th Fleet. "Tama" and "Kiso" were sent north to Hokkaidō, in Arctic white camouflage, on 2 December 1941, and were patrolling in the Kurile Islands, at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Both cruisers' hulls were damaged by severe weather, and both returned to dry dock at Yokosuka by the end of the year.

On 21 January 1942, CruDiv 21 departed Yokosuka and was again sent north on patrols around Hokkaidō, but was recalled after 38 aircraft of US Task Force 16 ( and , escorting a three-ship reinforcement carrying troops and supplies for the garrison on Attu. At the Battle of the Komandorski Islands on 26 March 1943, against USN Task Group 16.6 with the , . "Tama" proceeded alone at 14 knots towards Okinawa.

Northeast of Luzon, "Tama's" luck ran out, as the USS|Jallao|SS-368|2, on her first war patrol, picked up the "Tama" on radar. Its attack of three bow torpedoes from 1,000 yards missed, but its second salvo of four stern torpedoes from 800 yards was more successful. Three torpedoes hit "Tama", breaking it in two, and sinking it within minutes, with all hands at coord|21|23|N|127|19|E.

"Tama" was removed from the Navy List on 20 December 1944.

List of Commanding Officers

*Chief Equipping Officer - Capt. Teizo Kawai - 1 June 1920 - 29 January 1921
*Capt. Teizo Kawai - 29 January 1921 - 1 December 1921
*Capt. Gengo Hyakutake - 1 December 1921 - 5 March 1923
*Capt. Isamu Tanaka - 5 March 1923 - 20 October 1923
*Capt. Tanin Ikeda - 20 October 1923 - 1 December 1923
*Capt. Masashi Takeuchi - 1 December 1923 - 1 January 1924
*Capt. Koshiro Oikawa - 1 January 1924 - 1 December 1924
*Capt. Kunitaro Aoki - 1 December 1924 - 10 July 1925
*Capt. Manbei Idemitsu - 10 July 1925 - 20 October 1925
*Capt. Toki Yamamoto - 20 October 1925 - 1 December 1925
*Capt. Saburo Matsui - 1 December 1925 - 20 May 1926
*Capt. Kenichi Ikenaka - 20 May 1926 - 1 December 1927
*Capt. Yoshitaka Kiyomiya - 1 December 1927 - 20 August 1928
*Capt. Shigetaro Shimada - 20 August 1928 - 10 December 1928
*Capt. Jiro Ishii - 10 December 1928 - 30 November 1929
*Capt. Isao Ono - 30 November 1929 - 10 November 1930
*Cmdr. / Capt. Hideo Takahashi - 10 November 1930 - 1 May 1931 (Promoted to Captain on 1 December 1930.)
*Capt. Mitsumi Shimizu - 1 May 1931 - 14 November 1931
*Cmdr. / Capt. Michitaro Totsuka - 14 November 1931 - 11 July 1932 (Promoted to Captain on 1 December 1931.)
*Capt. Minoru Yamaguchi - 11 July 1932 - 15 November 1932
*Capt. Daisuke Soejima - 15 November 1932 - 15 November 1933
*Capt. Kohei Ochi - 15 November 1933 - 1 November 1934
*Capt. Seigo Takatsuka - 1 November 1934 - 15 November 1935
*Capt. Katsumi Shimomura - 15 November 1935 - 16 March 1936
*Capt. Katsuo Abe - 16 March 1936 - 16 November 1936
*Capt. Kiyoshi Shiroya - 16 November 1936 - 1 November 1937
*Capt. Shigeji Kaneko - 1 November 1937 - 15 December 1938
*Capt. Hajime Horiuchi - 15 December 1938 - 15 November 1939
*Capt. Tomoichi Mori - 15 November 1939 - 1 November 1940
*Capt. Kazutaka Niimi - 1 November 1940 - 10 September 1941
*Capt. Masaharu Kawabata - 10 September 1941 - 1 August 1942
*Capt. Zensuke Kanome - 1 August 1942 - 23 June 1943
*Capt. Shigenori Kami - 23 June 1943 - 15 December 1943
*Capt. / RADM* Iwata Yamamoto - 15 December 1943 - 25 October 1944 (KIA)

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*Tabular record: [http://www.combinedfleet.com/tama_t.htm CombinedFleet.com: "Tama" history]

Notes

ee also

*List of World War II ships