Name CH-24 Completed 20 December 1941 Draft 2.75 m | Builder Osaka Iron Works Fate Sunk, 17 February 1944 | |
Displacement 438 long tons (445 t) standard | ||
The Japanese submarine chaser CH-24 was a No.13-class submarine chaser of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. She was built by the Ōsaka Iron Works, Sakurajima and completed on 20 December 1941. On 24 August 1942, she left Rabaul as part of Operation RE, for the landings at Milne Bay. March 15, 1943 she, along with CH-22 and Satsuki, sank a submarine, possibly USS Triton, north west of the Admiralty Islands.
Fate
She was sunk by the destroyer USS Burns west of Truk on 17 February 1944.
References
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