- Japanese escort Hachijo
"Hachijo" was an escort ship of the
Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.Like her sister ship "Ishigaki", "Hachijo" spent most of her early career in the Kuriles escorting ships. On
19 February ,1943 , "Hachijo" barely missed meeting her doom when she was detached from escorting "Akagane Maru" to Attu in the morning. That evening, "Akagane Maru" ran into the heavy cruiser USS|Indianapolis|CA-35|6 with two destroyers and was sunk.On 7 July 1944 "Hachijo" was severely damaged in an air attack, having damage to her hull and an auxiliary engine room flooded. "Hachijo" survived the war and was scrapped, finishing on 30 April 1948.
References
* [http://www.combinedfleet.com/Hachijo_t.htm Hachijo at Combined fleet] (Retrieved on November 7, 2007)
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