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Sunday 26 March 2023

Japan asked the USA for cruiser, destroyers and minesweepers according to the Australia Station Intelligence Summary dated 1 February 1957

An item reported that Japan asked the USA for the lease of 2-2,100 ton destroyers and some 320 ton minesweepers durig the next Fiscal Year to replace the leased LSSL’s. The latter were considered to be obsolete and were to give back starting end of January. The request for a cruiser to serve as a flagship was still not decided.

Source

Website Royal Australian Navy, Sea Power Centre.

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