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Sasebo Naval Arsenal in commemorative postcard, 1930s Aircraft carrier Ibuki under dismantling operation at Sasebo. October 1946. The Sasebo Naval District was established at Sasebo, Nagasaki in 1886, as the third of the naval districts responsible for the defense of the Japanese home islands.
Sasebo also contained the Sasebo Naval Arsenal, specializing mostly in destroyers and smaller warships; and its anchorage was one of the largest in Japan. The District encompassed anchorages at Imari and Hirado ports as well as the designated third echelon naval ports yokobu ( 要港部 ) of Takeshiki ( Tsushima ), Kagoshima , Kuji ( Amami ...
Sasebo has been a naval base since 1883, when Lieutenant Commander Tōgō Heihachirō nominated the small fishing village to form the nucleus of a base for the Imperial Japanese Navy. In 1905, ships of the Japanese Navy under Admiral Togo sailed from Sasebo to combat the Russian Baltic Fleet, leading to victory for Togo at the Battle of Tsushima.
The Sasebo Naval Base (Japanese: 佐世保基地, Hepburn: Sasebo Kichi), also simply known as the JMSDF Sasebo Naval Base, is a group of ports and land facilities of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), which are scattered in multiple districts of Sasebo City, Kyushu, and where the Sasebo District Force [] are located.
Sasebo Naval District, founded in 1886, became the major port for the Japanese navy in its operations in the First Sino-Japanese War and Russo-Japanese War. It remained a major naval base to the end of World War II. Along with the base facilities, the navy also constructed the Sasebo Naval Arsenal, which included major shipyards and repair ...
Tone was designed and built in Japan by the Sasebo Naval Arsenal, under the 1904 Emergency Fleet Replenishment Program to recover from losses to the Japanese navy in the Russo-Japanese War. As funding was limited, the Diet of Japan rejected budgeting for a sister ship or for subsequent construction of the same design.
Ha-201 (left) and her sister ship Ha-202 (right) under construction at the Sasebo Naval Arsenal in Sasebo, Japan, in March or April 1945. Ha-201 was an Imperial Japanese Navy Ha-201-class submarine. Completed and commissioned in May 1945, she served during the final months of World War II.
Sasebo Naval Arsenal: 18 June 1940 22 October 1941 31 October 1942 Torpedoed, 16 February 1944, in the course of Operation Hailstone: Noshiro: Yokosuka Naval Arsenal: 4 September 1941 19 July 1942 30 June 1943 Sunk in air attack, 26 October 1944, following the Battle off Samar: Yahagi: Sasebo Naval Arsenal 11 November 1941 25 October 1942