An item reported that at the shipyard at Maizuru, Japan was a the large Japanese minelayer Sokuten Maru No. 1 to be built and completed in 1914 and stationed in the Pescadores.(1)
Note
1. Of the Sokuten-class auxiliary minelayers, later called the Toshima-class. Laucnhed by Maizuru Naval Arsenal in March 1913, completed on 4 July 1913, renamed Sokuten on 1 July 1920 and decommissioned on 25 August 1936.
Note
1. Of the Sokuten-class auxiliary minelayers, later called the Toshima-class. Laucnhed by Maizuru Naval Arsenal in March 1913, completed on 4 July 1913, renamed Sokuten on 1 July 1920 and decommissioned on 25 August 1936.