Tokusetsu-Yusokan
IJN T.103 Class Landing Ship Tank
(T.101 Class Landing Ship Tank by T. Yuki)
IJN LST T.172:
Tabular Record of Movement
© 2018 Bob Hackett & Sander Kingsepp
24 November 1944:
Urasaki Zosensho. Laid down at Kawanami Kogyo K.K.
Shipyard as the 950-ton T.103-class landing ship tank No. 1572.
27 January 1945:
Launched.
22 February 1945:
Reserve Lt Isasaka Norimoto is appointed the Chief
Equipping Officer (CEO).
28 February 1945:
Numbered T.172.
Rerated a 2nd Class Yusokan.
10 March 1945:
Completed and reassigned to the IJN. Attached to
Sasebo Naval District. Assigned to 2nd Transport Squadron of the Combined Fleet.
Lt Isasaka Norimoto is the CO.
27 March 1945:
Drydocked in No. 3 drydock of Sasebo Navy Yard.
10 April 1945:
Departs Sasebo for trials, returns later that evening.
11 April 1945:
Departs Sasebo for Hakata Bay, arrives later that day.
12 April 1945:
Departs Hakata Bay for Kurahashi Island, Inland Sea,
arrives later that day.
13 April 1945:
Departs Kurahashi Island for Kure, arrives later that
day and refuels.
15 April 1945:
Departs Kure for Kobe, arrives later that day.
16 April 1945:
Departs Kobe for Kushimoto, arrives later that day.
17 April 1945:
Departs Kushimoto for Matoya Bay, arrives later
that day.
18 April 1945:
Departs Matoya for Shimizu harbor, arrives later
that day.
19 April 1945:
Departs Shimizu for Yokosuka, arrives later
that day.
5 May 1945:
Lt Isasaka receives the order to return to Sasebo as
soon as possible.
10 May 1945:
Departs Yokosuka for Sasebo.
11 May 1945:
E of the mouth of Tenryu River. Around 1028, T.172
is unsuccessfully targeted by two Consolidated B-24 (or PB4Y-2) patrol
bombers. Makes an overnight stop at Toba harbor that evening.
12 May 1945:
Departs Toba for Garaku.
13 May 1945:
Departs Garaku for Yura.
14 May 1945:
Arrives at Yura.
15 May 1945:
Departs Yura for Hiro.
16 May 1945:
Arrives at Hiro.
24 May 1945:
Arrives at Moji, departs for Hakata Bay later that
day.
26 May 1945:
Arrives at Hakata.
27 May 1945:
Departs Hakata for Sasebo. En route assists the
mined KONGO MARU in Genkai Sea.
30 May 1945:
Arrives at Sasebo.
9 June 1945:
Temporarily assigned to a Sasebo-based amphibious
vehicle unit armed with Special Type 4 Ka-Tsu amphibious landing craft.
15 June 1945:
Departs Sasebo for a training cruise, returns on
the 17th.
27 July 1945:
Departs Sasebo for Chinkai (now Jinhae), Korea,
later returns to Sasebo.
22-23 August 1945:
Conducts a training cruise off Sasebo.
26 August 1945:
Placed in 1st reserve at Sasebo.
15 September 1945:
Removed from the Navy List.
1 December 1945:
Designated a repatriation vessel. Assigned to
Sasebo Repatriation Center.
20 December 1945:
Renamed Repatriation Vessel No. 172.
27 February 1946:
Kakinouchi Akio is appointed the CO.
15 March 1946:
Michino Isao (69)(former CO of the 67th Shinyo
squadron) is appointed the CO.
5 September 1947:
Matsuo Keiji (67)(former CO of SHIRASAKI) is
appointed the CO.
20 September 1947:
Nagai Hiroshi (67) is appointed the CO.
3 October 1947:
Removed from the list of repatriation vessels.
Ceded to the Nationalist Republic of China as a war reparation No. 26 at
Tsingtao (Qingdao). Renamed LUI SHAN.
December 1949:
Ferries supplies and Nationalist personnel from
the mainland to Taiwan. After the cessation of hostilities laid up in
Taiwan.
1953:
Undergoes repairs. Renamed AP-308. Assigned to Transport
Squadron.
1955:
Caught by a typhoon off the Taiwanese coast and heavily
damaged, scrapped sometime thereafter.
-Bob Hackett & Sander Kingsepp
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