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SunkAuxiliary picket boat, No. 23 Nitto Maru. A fishing boat taken up in December 1941 and based at Ominato. On 18 April 1942 she sighted the Doolittle Raid force and got a warning off. She was sunk that morning. One account credits Nashville's guns. Nashville's Dictionary history credits Enterprise planes with the boat that radioed.
| Type | Auxiliary (AG) |
|---|---|
| Builder | Fuji shipyards |
| Launched | 1935 |
| Fate | Sunk. Fishing boat taken up in December 1941 as picket No. 23, based at Ominato. Sunk on 18 April 1942 after she radioed a sighting of the Doolittle Raid force. One account credits Nashville's guns. The Dictionary history of Nashville credits planes from Enterprise with the boat that radioed, and credits Nashville's guns with a second scout. |
Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.
No. 23 Nitto Maru burning on 18 April 1942, the morning she sighted the Doolittle Raid force. The print is the one in The Maru Special No. 53, credited there to the United States Navy. No Navy catalog number was found for this frame. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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The Doolittle Raid
1942-04-18 · Sunk that morning after she sighted the force at 7:38 and got a warning off. One account credits Nashville's guns. Nashville's Dictionary history credits Enterprise planes with the boat that radioed, and credits Nashville's guns with a second scout.
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