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Japanese escort ship Aguni

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Name
  
Aguni

Struck
  
30 November 1945

Length
  
78,8 meters

Launched
  
21 September 1944

Builder
  
Nihon Kokan, Tsurumi

Displacement
  
940 tons

Construction started
  
15 February 1944

Fate
  
Scrapped at Iino Kaiun K. K on 20 May 1948

Aguni was an Ukuru-class escort ship of the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second World War. She was named after the Aguni Islands. The ship was heavily damaged by a U.S. Bat radar-guided glide bomb on 27 May 1945.

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Japanese escort ship Aguni Wikipedia