# Tategami-class salvage tugboat

The Tategami-class salvage tugboats (立神型救難船兼曳船,, Tategami-gata Kyūnansen-ken-eisen) were a class of rescue ship/tugboat of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), serving during World War II. The Miura-class (三浦型) was a wartime variant which introduced measures to simplify production. The official IJN designation for all vessels was 800-ton salvage tugboat (八〇〇瓲救難船兼曳船,, 800-ton Kyūnansen-ken-eisen).

## Background

After the Russo-Japanese War, the IJN purchased many steamships and converted them to salvage vessels. However, by the beginning of the 1930s, replacements were needed, to this end the IJN introduced the Tategami-class.

## Ships in classes
### Tategami class

The IJN was going to build the Tategami class one by one for three years from fiscal year 1936, at first. However, the plan came to a deadlock for budget shortage by the second year. The IJN postponed building of second ship Oshima for two years.
| Ship | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Completed | Fate |
| Tategami (立神) ex-Salvage tugboat No. 941 | Harima Zōsen | 27 May 1936 as Salvage tugboat No. 941 | 29 August 1936 | 25 January 1937 as Tategami | Renamed Tategami on 22 January 1937. Survived war; decommissioned on 30 November 1945. Sold to Nippon Salvage Company and renamed Tategami Maru (立神丸) in 1945. Retired in 1968. |
| one vessel | | | | | Converted to Kasashima class, because naval budget was short. |
| Oshima (雄島) | Maizuru Naval Arsenal | | | fiscal year 1939 | Sunk in an accident in Truk (Tonowas) on 10 October 1943. |
| Nagaura (長浦) | Harima Zōsen | 11 January 1940 | 16 May 1940 | 21 October 1940 | Sunk by USN Destroyer Squadron 23 off Kavieng 00°54′S 148°38′E﻿ / ﻿0.900°S 148.633°E﻿ / -0.900; 148.633 with minelayer Natsushima on 22 February 1944. |

### Miura class

To simplify and speed-up construction of the Tategami class, the Kampon introduced wartime standard ship structures into the Tategami design.
| Ship | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Completed | Fate |
| Miura (三浦) | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Shimonoseki shipyard | 5 May 1944 | 7 September 1944 | 25 December 1944 | Survived war; decommissioned on 30 November 1945; renamed Miura Maru (三浦丸) in postwar. Transferred to Japan Maritime Safety Agency on 4 August 1949; renamed Miura (みうら PL-01, later PL-101) on 15 December; retired on 3 June 1967. |
| Yumihari (弓張) | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Shimonoseki shipyard | 15 July 1944 | 16 December 1944 | 12 March 1945 | Survived war; decommissioned on 30 November 1945. Transferred to Tōyō Salvage K.K. and renamed Yumihari Maru (弓張丸) in 1945, sold to Kawanami Kōgyō Corporation in 1947. Sold to Thailand and renamed Rangkwien in 1958. Decommissioned on 30 April 1979. |
| Hanashima (花島) | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Shimonoseki shipyard | 23 October 1944 as Hanashima | 5 December 1945 as Akama Maru | 28 February 1947 | Incomplete until the end of war; transferred to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and renamed Akama Maru (赤間丸) in 1945. Sold to Kambara Kisen Company and renamed Tensya Maru No. 3 (第三天社丸, Daisan Tensya Maru) in 1954, aground and broken in February 1962 at Kitan Strait. |

## Footnotes

* ↑ JACAR C05034940200, p. 2
* 1 2 3 4 The Maru Special (1981), p. 38
* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Harima Zōsen (1960), p. 452–453
* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Harima Zōsen (1960), p. 460–461
* 1 2 3 4 5 6 JACAR C05034885500, p. 10
* 1 2 JACAR C05034885600, p. 10, p. 15–20
* 1 2 JACAR C05034279700, p. 2
* ↑ JACAR C05034885500, p. 11
* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Jirō Kimata (1999), p. 340–341
* 1 2 Monthly Ships of the World (2003), p. 27
* ↑ JMSA (1979), P.294
* ↑ JACAR C05110830400, p. 2
* ↑ Other proposed names were Yatake (矢岳) and Hario (針尾). JACAR C05110830400, p. 3
* 1 2 JACAR C05110830400, p. 3
* 1 2 3 Editorial Committee of the Navy (1981), p. 191
* ↑ Woshima was registered to naval ship list on 12 August 1939. Other informations were not left.
* ↑ JACAR C08030664200, p. 20
* ↑ Shizuo Fukui (1961), p. 197
* 1 2 Shizuo Fukui (1994), second separate volume p. 927
* ↑ ภูริลาภ สืบเพ็ง. เรื่อง เรือหลวงรางเกวียน (in Thai). Royal Thai Navy. Retrieved 23 April 2012.