© 2007-2010 Bob Hackett, Sander Kingsepp and Peter Cundall
15 April 1944:
Nagasaki. Laid down at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd’s shipyard as vessel No. 962 (yard number).
7 July 1944:
Launched and numbered CD-42.
25 August 1944:
Completed and registered in the Sasebo Naval District. Assigned to the Kure Guard Unit.
August-September 1944:
Arrives at Saeki. Participates in anti-submarine warfare training.
1 November 1944
Assigned to the Sasebo Guard Unit.
25 December 1944:
CD-42 departs Kagoshima with CD-30, CD-44, minesweeper W-15, torpedo boat MANAZURU, auxiliary minesweepers TAKUNAN MARU No. 3, TOSHI MARU No.7, BANSHU MARU No. 51 and auxiliary CHOUN MARU No. 8 escorting convoy KATA-506 consisting of nine unidentified merchant ships.
28 December 1944:
Arrives at Naha, Okinawa.
5 January 1945:
Departs Keelung for Kagoshima with kaibokan CD-30 (F) and two other warships escorting an unidentified convoy.
10 January 1945:
East China Sea. W of Kume Island, Okinawa. At about 0500, LtCdr Carl R. Dwyer's USS PUFFER (SS-268) attacks the convoy. CD-42 is at the starboard fore of the convoy. Dwyer torpedoes and sinks CD-42 at 27-01N, 126-34E with all 170 hands including her CO, LtCdr Egashira Tomiya.
Dwyer then torpedoes and wrecks CD-30’s bow and bridge at 26-45N, 126-11E, but she manages to steam to Okinawa at five knots.
10 March 1945:
Removed from the Navy List.
Authors' Note:
Records on this kaibokan are scant because she was lost with no survivors.
Special thanks go to Mr. Iwasaki Yutaka of Japan for help with this TROM. Thanks also go to Dr. Higuchi Tatsuhiro of Japan.
-Bob Hackett, Sander Kingsepp and Peter Cundall
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