Blackhorse -> RE: Why Would They Leave out........ (6/3/2004 6:02:35 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Mogami Also I've found two ex Chinese CL that entered Japanese service in 1944 and placed them into the production pool. (Built in Shanghai by the Japanese they were completed in 1937. Scuttled and then raised the Japanese converted them to convoy escort and they entered service. One was sunk by USN submarine the other by aircraft from TF 38.) Ioshima and Yasoshima. Hi Mogami. Glad to see that you're adding the ex-Chinese cruisers Ping Hai ("Amicable Sea") and Ning Hai ("Peaceful Sea"). I'm surprised they're not in the main game database -- I remember them being added to one of the PACWAR updates. A little more history: Ning Hai was built for China in Japan, at the Hirami shipyard. Laid down in 1930, completed in 1932. Ping Hai was built by the Chinese, to the same design, in Shanghai. Laid down in 1931, and scheduled for a 1933 launch, but not completed until 1936 because the Japanese ended technical assistance and the Chinese replaced the planned Japanese armament with Krupp and Bofors guns. Both vessels were sunk, or ran aground, in combat on the Yangzte river in September, 1937. They were captured by Japan, refloated, towed to Japan and used as floating barracks. In 1944, because of the critical shortage of escort vessels, the Japanese refitted both vessels as second-class cruisers. The Ning Hai became the Yashoshima, and the Ping Hai was commissioned as the Ioshima.
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