Japanese escort ship Kanawa
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Kanawa was an ("Kaibokan") of the Imperial Japanese Navy
during the Second World War. After the war Kanawa was used in the repatriation service. She was then taken over by the British and scrapped in 1947 at Singapore
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Imperial Japanese Navy
The Imperial Japanese Navy was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1869 until 1947, when it was dissolved following Japan's constitutional renunciation of the use of force as a means of settling international disputes...
during the Second World War. After the war Kanawa was used in the repatriation service. She was then taken over by the British and scrapped in 1947 at Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
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