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Japanese gunboat Katsura Maru Number Two

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Katsura Maru Number Two was a Japanese auxiliary gunboat built as a merchant ship at Urabe in 1937 and requisitioned by the Imperial Japanese Navy prior to the commencement of World War II.[1]

She was sunk in the Sea of Okhotsk by USS S-28 on 20 September 1943.

References

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  1. ^ Watts, Anthony (1966). Japanese warships of World War II. Shepperton: Ian Allan. p. 269. ISBN 0711002150.