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Japanese escort ship Kanawa

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Name
  
Kanawa

Commissioned
  
15 March 1945

Displacement
  
940 tons

Launched
  
20 January 1945

Draft
  
3 m

Laid down
  
15 November 1944

Fate
  
Scrapped 1947

Construction started
  
15 November 1944

Weight
  
955.1 tons

Builder
  
Mitsui Shipbuilding, Tamano

Kanawa was an Ukuru-class escort ship ("Kaibokan") of the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second World War. After the war Kanawa was used in repatriation service. She was then taken by the British and scrapped in 1947 at Singapore.

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Japanese escort ship Kanawa Wikipedia


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