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Japanese escort ship CD-76

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Career (Imperial Japanese Navy)
Name: CD-76
Builder: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd, Nagasaki
Laid down: 1 November 1944
Launched: 18 November 1944
Sponsored by: Imperial Japanese Navy
Completed: 23 December 1944
Commissioned: 23 December 1944
Fate: ceded to the Soviet Union,28 August 1947
Career (Soviet Navy) Naval Ensign of the Soviet Union (1935–1950)
Name: EK-44
Acquired: 28 August 1947
Commissioned: 25 September 1947
Renamed:
  • TsL-45 (1948)
    СКР-49 (1954)
Homeport: Vladivostok
Fate: transferred to Peoples Liberation Army Navy, 25 June 195
Career  People's Liberation Army Navy
Acquired: 25 June 1955
Fate: unknown
General characteristics [1]
Type: Type D escort ship
Displacement: 740 long tons (752 t) standard
Length: 69.5 m (228 ft)
Beam: 8.6 m (28 ft 3 in)
Draught: 3.05 m (10 ft)
Propulsion: 1 shaft, geared turbine engines, 2,500 hp (1,864 kW)
Speed: 17.5 knots (20.1 mph; 32.4 km/h)
Range: 4,500 nmi (8,300 km) at 16 kn (18 mph; 30 km/h)
Complement: 160
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • Type 22-Go radar
  • Type 93 sonar
  • Type 3 hydrophone
Armament:
  • As built :
  • 2 × 120 mm (4.7 in)/45 cal DP guns
  • 6 × Type 96 25 mm (0.98 in) AA machine guns (2×3)
  • 12 × Type 3 depth charge throwers
  • 1 × depth charge chute
  • 120 × depth charges
  • 1 × 81 mm (3.2 in) mortar

    • CD-76 or No. 76 was a Type D escort ship of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.

    History[]

    She was laid down on 1 August 1944 at the Nagasaki shipyard of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd for the benefit of the Imperial Japanese Navy.[2][3][4] She was launched on 18 November 1944 and completed and commissioned on 23 December 1944.[2][3] After completing her training at Saiki under Captain Masamitsu Tsugu (澁谷政光),[4] she departed for Kure and then arrived at Moji-ku, Kitakyūshū on 24 February 1945.[2] She served as an escort along with the Ukuru-class escort ship Habushi, CD-112, and submarine chaser CH-17 for convoy MOTA-39 consisting of 5 transports (including Masashima Maru and Akishima Maru) which assembled at nearby Mutsure Island (jp:六連島).[2][4] Departing on 26 February 1945, the convoy hugged the Chinese coast sheltering in various harbors before arriving safely at Keelung on 9 March 1945 (Masashima Maru and Akishima Maru left the convoy on 8 March 1945 for Amoy).[2][4] On 13 March 1945, she departed from Kirun for Moji in convoy TAMO-48 with fellow escort ships Habushi and CD-112 arriving on 23 March 1945.[2][4] For the remainder of the war, she conducted patrols, escort, and replenishment duty near the Tsushima Islands between Chinkai and Iki Island.[2][4]

    On 1 December 1945, she served as one of 269 Japanese ships that served as a minesweeper under the Allied forces after the war.[2] On 28 August 1947, she was one of 34 vessels ceded to Soviet Union as a war reparation.[2] On 25 September 1947, she was commissioned into the Soviet Pacific Ocean Fleet.[5] She arrived at Vladivostok in October 1947[2] and was designated as guard ship EK-44 (ЭК-44).[6] In 1948, she was re-designated as target ship TsL-45.[5] In November 1954, she was re-designated as patrol boat СКР-49 (SKR-49).[5] On 25 June 1955, she was transferred to the Peoples Liberation Army Navy.[5] Her ultimate fate is unknown.

    References[]

    1. ↑ Chesneau, Roger (1980). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922-1946. pp. 206–207. ISBN 0-85177-146-7. 
    2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 Hackett, Bob; Cundall, Peter; Casse, Gilbert (2012). "Kakyakusen: IJN Escort CD-76: Tabular Record of Movement". combinedfleet.com. http://www.combinedfleet.com/CD-76_t.htm. Retrieved 30 March 2020. 
    3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Stille, Mark (July 18, 2017). Imperial Japanese Navy Antisubmarine Escorts 1941-45. Bloomsbury Press. pp. 41–45. ISBN 9781472818164. https://books.google.com/books?id=TGErDwAAQBAJ&q=cd-76. 
    4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Toda, Gengoro S.. "第七十六號海防艦の艦歴 (No. 76 Kaibokan - Ship History)" (in Japanese). http://www.tokusetsukansen.jpn.org/J/K151/K151_076.htm. Retrieved October 30, 2021. 
    5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Dodson, Aidan; Cant, Serena (March 30, 2020). Spoils of War: The Fate of Enemy Fleets after the Two World Wars. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 9781526741998. https://books.google.com/books?id=LN0mEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22EK-44%22+%22target+ship%22&pg=PA303. 
    6. ↑ "EK-44 guard ships (1944 - 1946 / 1947)". http://www.navypedia.org/ships/russia/ru_es_ek32.htm. 

    Bibliography[]

    • Dodson, Aidan; Cant, Serena (2020). Spoils of War: The Fate of Enemy Fleets after Two World Wars. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5267-4198-1. 

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