Japanese minesweeper W-8

Three Japanese minesweepers have been named No.8 minesweeper (第八号掃海艇, Dai Hachi Gō Sōkaitei, or "W-8"):

• Japanese minesweeper No. 8 (1928), ex-Japanese destroyer Uranami (1907), a Kamikaze-class destroyer (1905) of the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War I
• , ex-Japanese destroyer Yamakaze (1911), a Umikaze-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War I
• Japanese minesweeper No. 8 (1938), a No.7-class minesweeper (1938) of the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II

See also[]

• , a No.1-class auxiliary minesweeper of the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II
• , a of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force

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