Japanese seaplane tender Kiyokawa Maru

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History
Kiyokawa Maru at the Panama Canal on 29 September 1937
Japan
Name	Kiyokawa Maru
Builder	Kawasaki, Kōbe Shipyard
Laid down	October 21, 1936
Launched	February 16, 1937
Acquired	September 28, 1941
Commissioned	October 5, 1941
Out of service	July 20, 1945
Stricken	August 10, 1946
Fate	Scrapped 1969
General characteristics
Class and type	Kamikawa Maru-class seaplane tender
Displacement	6,863 tons standard
Length	479 feet
Beam	62 feet
Draft	30 feet td>
Installed power	7,600 shp
Propulsion	1 Kawasaki-M.A.N. diesel, 1 shaft
Speed	19 knots
Armament	2 x 5.9-inch, 2 x Type 96 25 mm (0.98 in) AA, 2 x 13.2 mm (0.52 in) MG
Aircraft carried	12 seaplanes (24 stored)
Aviation facilities	Two catapults, cranes

Kiyokawa Maru (聖川丸) was a seaplane tender in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN).

History

The ship was built at Kawasaki's Kōbe Shipyard and launched on 13 December 1936 as a merchant vessel for the Kawasaki Kisen K. K. Line. Kyokawa Maru was involved in a collision with the small train ferry Uko Maru No. 1 on 19 August 1937 in the Seto Inland Sea, southwest of Nakanose.

Requisitioned by the IJN on 28 September 1941 and was refitted as a seaplane tender. The ship subsequently saw service in the Pacific Campaign of World War II. Kiyokawa Maru was attacked by aircraft from Task Force 38 on 20 July 1945. Hit by bombs and heavily damaged she was beached off Shida beach north of Kaminoseki, Yamaguchi to avoid sinking.

On 22 November 1945 during heavy weather, Kiyokawa Maru sank. Raised in December 1948, later repaired and put in civilian passenger service. Scrapped 1969.

References

Global Security (2009). "IJN Kamikawa Maru Seaplane Tender". Military. GlobalSecurity.org. Retrieved 1 July 2009.
Hackett, Bob; Sander Kingsepp; Allan Alsleben (2006). "IJN Seaplane Tender Kiyokawa Maru: Tabular Record of Movement". Tokusetsu Suijoki-Bokan!. Combinedfleet.com. Retrieved 1 July 2009.
Hackett, Bob; Sander Kingsepp; Allan Alsleben (2006). "Kamikawa Maru Class". Tokusetsu Suijoki-Bokan!. Combinedfleet.com. Retrieved 1 July 2009.

v t e Kamikawa Maru-class seaplane tenders
Seaplane tenders	Kamikawa Maru Kimikawa Maru Kiyokawa Maru Kunikawa Maru
Cargo ships	Hirokawa Maru
List of ships of the Japanese Navy

v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in July 1945
Shipwrecks	2 Jul: Empire Fal 3 Jul: Hoei Maru 4 Jul: Bahia 8 Jul: HNLMS O 19 10 Jul: Sakura Maru 11 Jul: Sakura 14 Jul: Hakuhō Maru, Tachibana 15 Jul: Francis Preston Blair, I-351, HMS Ludlow, HMS Maori, Walter L M Russ 16 Jul: USS Gamble, I-13, Nankai 17 Jul: HMS Athlete, John H. Hammond 18 Jul: Decommissioned Destroyer No. 18, I-372, Kasuga, Yakaze 20 Jul: Kiyokawa Maru 23 Jul: Cha-117 24 Jul: Aoba, Amagi, Hyūga, Iwate, Settsu, HMS Squirrel, Tone, USS Underhill 25 Jul: Kotobuki Maru, PB-2 26 Jul: HMS Vestal 28 Jul: USS Callaghan, Haruna, Ise, Izumo, Ōyodo 30 Jul: Hatsushimo, USS Indianapolis, Okinawa Unknown date: HMCS St. Francis
Other incidents	18 Jul: USS Gabilan, USS Hank, USS Wallace L. Lind 24 Jul: USS Colahan, USS Toro 25 Jul: SS Howard M. Hanna Jr. 26 Jul: USS Marlin
1944 1945 1946 June 1945 August 1945

v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in November 1945
Shipwrecks	6 Nov: USS Oberrender 8 Nov: USS Hogan 10 Nov: HMCS Assiniboine 12 Nov: Hokkai Maru 17 Nov: Sesotris 20 Nov: Ingénieur Général Haarbleicher 22 Nov: USS Canandaigua, Kiyokawa Maru 27 Nov: U-2321, U-2322, U-2324, U-2328, U-2345, U-2361 28 Nov: U-2325, U-2329, U-2334, U-2335, U-2338, U-2350, U-2363 29 Nov: U-298, U-312, U-968 30 Nov: U-170, U-281, U-328, U-369, U-481, U-868
Other incidents	30 Nov: U.S.O., Outarde
1944 1945 1946 October 1945 December 1945

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