Hashima-class cable layer

<h2 id="ships-in-class">Ships in class</h2>
<p>Project number J21.
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<table><tbody><tr><td>Ship</td><td>Builder</td><td>Laid down<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></td><td>Launched<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></td><td>Completed</td><td>Fate</td></tr><tr><td>Hashima (初島)ex-<i>Hatsushima</i></td><td><a href="/facts/Kawasaki_Shipbuilding_Corporation/DmApxG5z">Kawasaki,Kōbe Shipyard</a></td><td>15 October 1939as <i>Hatsushima</i></td><td>10 April 1940</td><td>25 October 1940as <i>Hashima</i></td><td>Renamed <i>Hashima</i> on 25 October 1940. Sunk by <a href="/facts/USS_Sennet/F68LBhuh">USS <i>Sennet</i></a> off <a href="/facts/Owase,_Mie/vjMlTord">Owase</a> <a href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Hashima-class_cable_layer¶ms=33_58_N_136_17_E_">33°58′N 136°17′E / 33.967°N 136.283°E / 33.967; 136.283</a> on 28 April 1945. Decommissioned on 10 July 1945.</td></tr><tr><td>Tsurushima (釣島)</td><td>Kawasaki,Kōbe Shipyard</td><td>15 January 1940</td><td>24 May 1940</td><td>28 March 1941</td><td>Decommissioned on 30 November 1945. Transferred to <a href="/facts/Ministry_of_Internal_Affairs_and_Communications/mvE8QeQm">Ministry of Communications and Transportation</a> and renamed <i>Tsurushima Maru</i> (釣島丸) in 1945. Transferred to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation on 8 September 1951. Retired in March 1968.</td></tr><tr><td>Ōtate (大立)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a></td><td><a href="/facts/IHI_Corporation/B6nNTy3g">Harima Zōsen</a></td><td>22 April 1940</td><td>11 December 1940</td><td>31 July 1941</td><td>Sunk by air raid off Kusagaki Islands <a href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Hashima-class_cable_layer¶ms=30_40_N_127_50_E_">30°40′N 127°50′E / 30.667°N 127.833°E / 30.667; 127.833</a> on 27 March 1945. Decommissioned on 10 July 1945.</td></tr><tr><td>Tateishi (立石)</td><td>Harima Zōsen</td><td>22 April 1940</td><td>1 March 1941</td><td>31 August 1941</td><td>Sunk by air raid in <a href="/facts/South_China_Sea/WRFXLgIg">South China Sea</a> <a href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Hashima-class_cable_layer¶ms=11_50_N_109_18_E_">11°50′N 109°18′E / 11.833°N 109.300°E / 11.833; 109.300</a> on 21 March 1945. Decommissioned on 10 May 1945.</td></tr></tbody></table>
<h2 id="photos">Photos</h2>

<h2 id="footnotes">Footnotes</h2>

<h2 id="bibliography">Bibliography</h2>
<ul><li>Monthly Ships of the World, <i>Special issue Vol.45, "Escort Vessels of the Imperial Japanese Navy"</i>, <a href="http://www.ships-net.co.jp/">"Kaijinsha"</a>., (Japan), February 1996</li>
<li>The Maru Special, <i>Japanese Naval Vessels No.47, "Japanese naval mine warfare crafts"</i>, <a href="http://www.kojinsha.co.jp/">"Ushio Shobō"</a>. (Japan), January 1981</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Senshi_S%C5%8Dsho/7DGHmQ2H">Senshi Sōsho</a> Vol.31, <i>Naval armaments and war preparation (1), "Until November 1941"</i>, Asagumo Simbun (Japan), November 1969</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Senshi Sōsho Vol.31 (1969), p.806 <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Senshi Sōsho Vol.31 (1969), p.806 <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>10 December 1940, Notice No. 288, Named one minesweeper, one submarine chaser and two cable layers, Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of the Navy, 1940. <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_the_Navy_of_Japan" target="_blank">/wiki/Ministry_of_the_Navy_of_Japan</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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Hashima-class cable layer open-in-new

Hashima-class cable layer