Operator |
Imperial Navy |
Classification |
Training Cruiser |
Standard displacement |
5,890 tons |
Speed |
18 knots |
Departure point |
Truk Island |
Departure date |
17 February 1944 |
Destination |
Yokosuka, Japan |
No. of POWs |
8 |
Location of disaster |
Northern waters of Truk Island |
Date of disaster |
17 February 1944 |
POW casualties |
8 |
POW survivors |
Nil |
Photo |
Courtesy of Kojinsha |
Katori, and two destroyers Maikaze and Nowake had left Truk Island for the Japanese homeland on the early morning of 17 February 1944, were attacked by the carrier-based aircraft of the US Task Force 58, which made a large-scale air attack on Truck Islands. Nowake successfully evaded the air raid and bombardment of the enemy surface force, and then barely made it back to Yokosuka. However, Katori and Maikaze were damaged by the air raid and came to a stop. Then they were finished off by the gun fire of the enemy surface force.