1944-09-24
Loss of Yaeyama
South of Mindoro, in the Calamian Islands
Carrier aircraft of Task Force 38 found the minelayer Yaeyama south of Mindoro and sank her. The place was about 12°15'N, 121°00'E. The strike is not credited to one carrier. Her captain survived. She was struck on 10 November 1944.
Sunk in this fight
One ship.
Created for this encyclopedia, not a scanned historical map. Base map: Natural Earth, public domain; the coast is generalized. North is up. Not a surveyed track. The pin is the position in the Japanese ship history on combinedfleet.com, 12°15' N, 121°00' E, for the carrier-plane attack of 24 September 1944. The same entry says the aircraft attacked the anchorage at Coron Bay, which is about 50 miles from that point, so the position is approximate. The Coron Bay label was added by us and is not a sourced position.