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(Cargo ship by Takeshi Yuki scanned from "Color Paintings
of Japanese Warships")
IJN NOZAKI:
Tabular Record of Movement
© 2008 Bob Hackett, Sander Kingsepp and Peter Cundall.
18 October 1939:
Shimonoseki. Laid down at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries shipyard.
22 July 1940:
Launched and named NANKAI.
18 March 1941:
Completed and registered in the IJN.
1 April 1942:
Renamed NOZAKI.
19 November 1943:
NOZAKI is bombed, probably by B-25 "Mitchell" medium bombers of 14th Air Force off the Chinese coast, but sustains little damage.
28 December 1944:
South China Sea, off Cape Varella, Indochina. Ex-supply ship NOZAKI is in a convoy from Hainan Island to Saigon with CHEFOO MARU escorted by subchaser CH-43 when the convoy is attacked by LtCdr Otis R. Cole’s USS DACE (SS-247). Cole torpedoes and sinks NOZAKI 50 miles NE of Nha Trang. DACE also damages CHEFOO MARU at 12-36N, 109-38E.
29 December 1944:
Off Camranh Bay, Indochina. Destroyers KAYA, SUGI and KASHI find and rescue 25 NOZAKI survivors.
31 March 1945:
Removed from the Navy List.
Authors’ Notes:
[1] Very little data were found detailing NOZAKI 's movements. Readers with access to such data are requested to post the information on the Discussion
and Questions board or j-aircraft.org's IJN Ship Message
Board
- Bob Hackett, Sander Kingsepp and Peter Cundall.
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