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IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY JAPAN MARITIME SELF-DEFENSE FORCE (JAPAN)

10. MINE WARFARE SHIPS

1. minelayers

1. NATSUSHIMA coastal minelayers - minesweepers (1912 - 1921)

2. KATSURIKI minelayer (1917)

3. SHIRATAKA minelayer - netlayer (1929)

4. ITSUKUSHIMA minelayer (1929)

5. KAMOME coastal minelayers (1929)

6. YAEYAMA minelayer - netlayer (1932)

7. NATSUSHIMA coastal minelayers - netlayers - minesweepers (1933 - 1934)

8. SARUSHIMA coastal minelayer - netlayer - minesweeper (1934)

9. OKINOSHIMA minelayer (1936)

10. SOKUTEN coastal minelayers - netlayers (1938 - 1940), HIRASHIMA coastal minelayers - netlayers (1940 - 1943), AJIRO coastal minelayer - netlayer (1944)

11. HATSUTAKA minelayers - netlayers (1939 - 1941)

12. HASHIMA cable ships with minelaying / netlaying capacity (1940 - 1941)

13. TSUGARU minelayer (1941)

14. 1-GO small auxiliary minelayers (1942)

15. 101-GO auxiliary minelayer (1938 / 1942)

16. KAMISHIMA coastal minelayers (1945)

17. EIJO auxiliary minelayers (1945)

18. ERIMO minelayer - minesweeper (1955)

19. TSUGARU minelayer - cablelayer (1955)

20. SOYA minelayer (1971)

21. HAYASE minelayer - mine warfare support ship (1971)

22! URAGA mine warfare support ships (1997 - 1998)

2. minesweepers

1. 1-GO minesweepers (1923 - 1925)

2. 5-GO minesweepers (1929)

3. 13-GO minesweepers (1933 - 1934)

4. 17-GO minesweepers (1936)

5. 7-GO minesweepers (1938 - 1939)

6. 19-GO minesweepers (1941 - 1944)

7. 1-GO auxiliary minesweepers (1942 - 1943)

8. 101-GO auxiliary minesweepers (1941 / 1943 - 1944, 1943)

9. 101-GO minesweepers (1944)

10. converted small minesweepers (1940s/1948)

11. YUCHIDORI inshore minesweeper (1939 / 1948)

12. YASHIMA coastal minesweepers (1954-1957, 1954/1956)

13. UJISHIMA coastal minesweepers (1943-1945/1955-1959)

14. YASHIRO coastal minesweeper (1956)

15. ATADA coastal minesweepers (1956)

16. KASADO coastal minesweepers (1958 - 1968)

17. TAKAMI coastal minesweepers (1969 - 1978)

18. HATSUSHIMA coastal minesweepers (1979 - 1988)

19! UWAJIMA coastal minesweepers (1990 - 1996)

20. YAEYAMA ocean minesweepers (1993 - 1994)

21! SUGASHIMA coastal minesweepers (1999 - 2007)

22! HIRASHIMA coastal minesweepers (2008-2010)

23! ENOSHIMA coastal minesweepers (2012-2015)

24! AWAJI ocean minesweepers (2017-)

3. mine destruction vessels

1. KUWAKARI MARU mine destruction vessel (1945 / 1948)

4. minesweeping boats

1. 1-GO minesweeping boats (1957-1959)

2. 7-GO minesweeping boats (1973-1975)

3! NAMIE 1 minesweeping drones (1998-1999)

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