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Yubari
Photos and infoExperimental light cruiser, one of a kind, named for a river on Hokkaido. She led destroyers from Wake to Savo Island. USS Bluegill sank her off Sonsorol on 28 April 1944.
Yubari classSaseboLaunched 1923-03-05Commissioned 1923-07-31Hit by one torpedo from USS Bluegill on 27 April 1944, after landing troops at Sonsorol. She sank the next morning. Not sunk at Savo Island.
U.S. Navy photo 19-N-9957. Yubari on 15 November 1924. The inscription on the print reads warship Yubari, Taisho 13. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Command
Battle of Savo Island
1942-08-09 · in the column; not sunk
