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John Pacini's 'With the RAN to Tokio' [1946]: HMS KGV and DoY, Sept 2, 1945 - SLV
5202. Two of Britain's greatest battleships, HMS DUKE OF YORK and HMS KING GEORGE V, werepresent at the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945. In European waters KGV had helped sink the BISMARCK and DUKE OF YORK had sunk the SCHARNHORST.
A limited number of British Pacific Fleet vessels were present at the surrender ceremony due to a shortage of re-fuelling vessels. We have also mis-stated the number of RAN vessels somewhere on the Photostream. A complete list of vessels present in Tokyo Bay is here:
www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq69-2.htm
The list appears to exclude the fleet aircraft carriers which remained outside the Bay to guard against the poossibility of a trap being laid. For the record we'd like to clear up the RAN ships present. There were eleven on the list above:
Cruisers HMAS SHROPSHIRE abd HMAS HOBART; destroyers HMAS BATAAN; HMAS WARRAMUNGA, HMAS NAPIER, HMAS NIZAM; frigate HMAS GASCOYNE; corvettes HMAS BALLARAT; HMAS CESSNOCK; HMAS IPSWICH, and HMAS PIRIE.
Somewhere we had assumed that QUICKMATCH and QUIBERON were there, and more of the 18 RAN corvettes attached to the BPF.
From John Pacini's '"With the RAN to Tokio,' State Library of Victroria [La Trobe Library] online. The link to the start of the full 49-page magazine-style book online at the SLV is here:
John Pacini's 'With the RAN to Tokio' [1946]: HMS KGV and DoY, Sept 2, 1945 - SLV
5202. Two of Britain's greatest battleships, HMS DUKE OF YORK and HMS KING GEORGE V, werepresent at the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945. In European waters KGV had helped sink the BISMARCK and DUKE OF YORK had sunk the SCHARNHORST.
A limited number of British Pacific Fleet vessels were present at the surrender ceremony due to a shortage of re-fuelling vessels. We have also mis-stated the number of RAN vessels somewhere on the Photostream. A complete list of vessels present in Tokyo Bay is here:
www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq69-2.htm
The list appears to exclude the fleet aircraft carriers which remained outside the Bay to guard against the poossibility of a trap being laid. For the record we'd like to clear up the RAN ships present. There were eleven on the list above:
Cruisers HMAS SHROPSHIRE abd HMAS HOBART; destroyers HMAS BATAAN; HMAS WARRAMUNGA, HMAS NAPIER, HMAS NIZAM; frigate HMAS GASCOYNE; corvettes HMAS BALLARAT; HMAS CESSNOCK; HMAS IPSWICH, and HMAS PIRIE.
Somewhere we had assumed that QUICKMATCH and QUIBERON were there, and more of the 18 RAN corvettes attached to the BPF.
From John Pacini's '"With the RAN to Tokio,' State Library of Victroria [La Trobe Library] online. The link to the start of the full 49-page magazine-style book online at the SLV is here: