IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY / JAPAN MARITIME SELF-DEFENSE FORCE (JAPAN)
6. ESCORTS
1. escort destroyers, frigates
1. MATSU escort destroyers (1944 - 1945)
2. TACHIBANA escort destroyers (1945)
3. TACOMA frigates (KUSU) (1943 - 1945 / 1953)
4. CANNON frigates (ASAHI) (1943 / 1955)
5. AKEBONO frigate (1956)
6. IKAZUCHI frigates (1956)
7. ISUZU frigates (1961 - 1964)
8. KATORI training / escort ship (1968)
9. CHIKUGO frigates (1970 - 1977)
10. ISHIKARI frigate (1981)
11. YUBARI frigates (1983 - 1984)
12. ABUKUMA frigates (1989 - 1993)
13. KASHIMA trainig / command / escort ship (1995)
2. escort and patrol vessels
1. "A" escorts (SHIMUSHU) (1940 - 1941)
2. 101-GO patrol ship (1922 / 1942)
3. 104-GO patrol ships (1929 / 1942 - 1944)
4. "Improved A" escorts (ETOROFU) (1943 - 1945)
5. "B" escorts (MIKURA) (1943 - 1944)
6. 102-GO patrol ship (1920 / 1943)
7. 103-GO patrol ship (1918 / 1943)
8. "Improved B" escorts (UKURU) (1944 - 1945)
9. "C" escorts (1-GO) (1944 - 1946)
10. "D" escorts (2-GO) (1944 - 1946)
11. 106-GO patrol ship (1930 / 1944)
12. 109-GO patrol ship (1931 / 1944)
13. HAKACHI escort (1943 / 1945)
14. OHAMA escort (1944 / 1945)
3. ASW and patrol craft
1. 1-GO submarine chasers (1934)
2. 3-GO submarine chaser (1936)
3. 51-GO submarine chasers (1937)
4. 53-GO submarine chaser (1937)
5. 4-GO submarine chasers (1938 - 1939)
6. 13-GO submarine chasers (1940 - 1942)
7. 28-GO submarine chasers (1942 - 1944)
8. 101-GO auxiliary submarine chaser (1942)
9. 102-GO auxiliary submarine chasers (1940 - 1941 / 1942 - 1944)
10. 103-GO auxiliary submarine chasers (1942 - 1945)
11. 111-GO auxiliary submarine chaser (1941 / 1942)
12. 112-GO auxiliary submarine chasers (1930 / 1942 - 1943)
13. 1-GO auxiliary submarine chasers (1943 - 1945)
14. 117-GO auxiliary submarine chaser (1938 / 1943)
15. 1-GO auxiliary patrols (1945)
16. "A" auxiliary escorts (1-GO)
17. "B" auxiliary escorts (101-GO)
18. KAMOME submarine chasers (1957)
19. HAYABUSA submarine chaser (1957)
20. OOTAKA submarine chasers (1960)
21. MIZUTORI submarine chasers (1960 - 1966)
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