Japanese escort ship Kanawa

History
Japan
Name	Kanawa
Builder	Mitsui Shipbuilding, Tamano
Laid down	15 November 1944
Launched	20 January 1945
Commissioned	15 March 1945
Fate	Scrapped 1947
General characteristics
Displacement	940 tons
Length	78,8 meters
Beam	9 meters
Draught	3 meters
Propulsion	diesels, 4200 bhp
Speed	19,5 knots
Complement	150
Armament	3 × 120 mm (4.7 in)/45 6 × 25mm Type AA guns depth charges

Kanawa was an Ukuru-class escort ship ("Kaibokan") of the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second World War. After the war Kanawa was used in repatriation service. She was then taken by the British and scrapped in 1947 at Singapore.^[1]