History
Japan
Name CD-51
Builder
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
[1]
Laid down 1 May 1944
[1]
Launched 20 August 1944
[1]
Completed 21 September 1944
[1]
Commissioned 21 September 1944
[1]
Stricken 10 March 1945
[1]
Fate Sunk by air attack on 12 January 1945
[1]
General characteristics
Class and type
Type C escort ship
Displacement 745 long tons (757 t) (standard)
Length 67.5 m (221 ft)
Beam 8.4 m (27 ft 7 in)
Draught 2.9 m (10 ft)
Propulsion
Geared diesel engines
1,900 hp (1,417 kW)
2 shafts
Speed 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph)
Range 6,500
nmi (12,000 km) at 14 kn (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Complement 136
Sensors and processing systems
Type 22-Go radar
Type 93 sonar
Type 3 hydrophone
Armament
CD-51 was a
C Type class escort ship (
Kaibōkan ) of the
Imperial Japanese Navy during the
Second World War .
History
CD-51 was laid down by the
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries at their
Kobe Shipyard on 1 May 1944, launched on 20 August 1944, and completed and commissioned on 21 September 1944.
[1] During the war CD-51 was mostly busy on escort duties.
[1]
On 12 January 1945, while on convoy duty north of
Qui Nhon (
14°15′N 109°10′E / 14.250°N 109.167°E / 14.250; 109.167 ), CD-51 was attacked and sunk by planes from the aircraft carriers
USS Essex ,
USS Ticonderoga ,
USS Langley and
USS San Jacinto which were part of Rear Admiral
Frederick C. Sherman 's Task Group 38.3 that had
entered the South China Sea to raid Japanese shipping .
[1]
[2] 159 of her crew were killed.
[1]
CD-51 was struck from the Navy List on 10 March 1945.
[1]
References
Additional sources
"Escort Vessels of the Imperial Japanese Navy special issue". Ships of the World (in Japanese). Vol. 45. Kaijinsha. February 1996.
Model Art Extra No.340, Drawings of Imperial Japanese Naval Vessels Part-1 (in Japanese). Model Art Co. Ltd. October 1989.
The Maru Special, Japanese Naval Vessels No.49, Japanese submarine chasers and patrol boats (in Japanese). Ushio Shobō. March 1981.
Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in January 1945
Shipwrecks
2 Jan:
Yu 1
4 Jan:
USS Ommaney Bay ,
Lewis L. Dyche
5 Jan:
Ha-71 ,
Ha-82 ,
Kanko Maru ,
Momi ,
Isaac Shelby ,
Shunsen Maru ,
Yu 3
6 Jan:
USS Long
7 Jan:
USS Hovey ,
USS Palmer
9 Jan:
Cha-216 ,
Kuroshio Maru ,
U-679 ,
U-1020
11 Jan:
Hakuyo Maru ,
T-76 Kotall
12 Jan:
CD-17 ,
CD-19 ,
CD-23 ,
CD-35 ,
CD-43 ,
CD-51 ,
Ikutagawa Maru ,
Kashii ,
Lamotte-Picquet ,
Louhi ,
M-1 ,
Otowa Maru ,
PB-103 ,
USS Swordfish ,
T.140 ,
W-101
14 Jan:
I-362
15 Jan:
Claus Rickmers ,
Hatakaze ,
Tsuga ,
USS YP-73
16 Jan:
Deyatelny ,
Donau ,
U-248
17 Jan:
U-2515 ,
U-2523 ,
U-2530
19 Jan:
HMS Porpoise
21 Jan:
U-1199
22 Jan:
Saga
23 Jan:
I-48
24 Jan:
Empire Rupert ,
USS Extractor ,
Shigure
26 Jan:
HMS Manners ,
U-1051
27 Jan:
U-1172
28 Jan:
Sanuki Maru
29 Jan:
USS Serpens ,
U-763
30 Jan:
USS Pontiac ,
Wilhelm Gustloff
31 Jan:
Berlin III ,
USS PC-1129 ,
U-2520
Unknown date:
Christian Radich ,
U-382 ,
U-480 ,
U-650 ,
U-1020
Other incidents