World War II: The Gyoraitei No. 102/TM 4-class motor torpedo boat was sunk or heavily damaged by Consolidated B-24 Liberator aircraft at Nagasaki, Japan.[1][2]
World War II: The CHa-1-classsubmarine chaser was damaged in Shimonoseki Straits by a mine and was beached.[7]
United States
World War II: The Liberty ship struck a mine and sank in the Adriatic Sea off Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. The wreck was raised in 1949 and scrapped.[8]
5 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 5 August 1945
Ship
Country
Description
The auxiliary submarine chaser ran aground and sank in Bungo Suido off Himosaki Light.[9]
World War II: The cargo liner was torpedoed and sunk in the Sea of Japan by USS Pargo (United States Navy). Eight hundred troops and 35 crewmen were killed.[17]
World War II: The oiler was torpedoed by Soviet Ilyushin DB-3 aircraft 24 kilometres (15 miles) south southeast of Chongjin, Korea and was beached. She sank later in the day.[21]
World War II: The Ukuru-class escort ship was damaged by a mine in Nanau Bay on 1 August. A crewman was killed. On 9 August she struck a mine in the Koguchi Channel and was beached. Refloated and sunk as a breakwater somewhere in Japan sometime in spring 1946.[4][22]
World War II: The transport ship was bombed and sunk in the Pacific Ocean off Tsuwajima by aircraft of the United States Far East Air Force. There were 60 killed and around 100 wounded.[4][28][circular reference][29]
The auxiliary submarine chaser was lost on this date.[9]
Tokiwa
The wreck of Tokiwa
World War II: The minelayer, a former Asama-classarmored cruiser, was severely damaged in Mutsu Bay at Ōminato, Japan, in a raid by aircraft of Task Force 38 (United States Navy) and was beached by her crew to prevent her from sinking. 109 sailors were killed and 82 wounded. She was refloated on 5 April 1947 and scrapped.[30]
The auxiliary submarine chaser was lost on this date.[9]
World War II: The Ohama-class escort was sunk by US and Royal Navy carrier aircraft in the Onagawa area.[42]
The auxiliary minesweeper was lost on this date.[41]
World War II: The Shuan An-class patrol craft was sunk by , and two other patrol boats (all Soviet Navy) in Lake Khanka after being partially scuttled by her crew.[43][44]
World War II: The Shuan An-class patrol craft was sunk by , and two other patrol boats (all Soviet Navy) in Lake Khanka after being run aground.[43][45]
World War II: The Shun Tsu-class patrol craft was sunk by , and two other patrol boats (all Soviet Navy) in Lake Khanka after being partially scuttled by her crew.[43][46]
World War II: The cargo ship was wrecked at Seisin, Korea while trying to evade Soviet motor torpedo boats. The wreck was torpedoed by (Soviet Navy) on 13 August.[40]
World War II: The Pa-1-class patrol ship was sunk at Urasaki by American aircraft.[50]
World War II: The transport was sunk about three nautical miles NNE of Mutsure-Jima, Japan (34°00′N130°52′E / 34.000°N 130.867°E / 34.000; 130.867) by an aerial mine laid by 20th Air Force USAAF B-29 with the loss of seven crewmen and one gunner.[58]
World War II: Battle of Shumshu: The LCI(L)-1-class landing ship was destroyed by Japanese artillery during the Soviet landings on Shumshu, Kuril Islands.[67]
Soviet Navy
World War II: Battle of Shumshu: The LCI(L)-1-class landing ship was destroyed by Japanese artillery during the Soviet landings on Shumshu.[67]
Soviet Navy
World War II: Battle of Shumshu: The LCI(L)-1-class landing ship was destroyed by Japanese artillery during the Soviet landings on Shumshu.[67]
Soviet Navy
World War II: Battle of Shumshu: The LCI(L)-1-class landing ship was destroyed by Japanese artillery during the Soviet landings on Shumshu.[67]
Soviet Navy
World War II: Battle of Shumshu: The LCI(L)-1-class landing ship was destroyed by Japanese artillery during the Soviet landings on Shumshu.[67]
World War II: The submarine was deliberately run aground by her crew off Ganryū-jima in the Shimonoseki Strait. The wreck was blown up by a United States Navy demolition team in November 1945, then refloated in November 1947 and scrapped.[68]
Soviet Navy
World War II: Battle of Shumshu: The minesweeper was lost in the Kuril Islands.[4]
World War II: The motorboat was shelled and sunk by (Soviet Navy).[74]
22 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 22 August 1945
Ship
Country
Description
World War II: The Wakatake-classdestroyer was heavily damaged by a mine in the Kanmon Strait off the Mutsure Lighthouse, she was beached and abandoned. Scrapped 1947–1948.[75]
World War II: The passenger-cargo ship was sunk by a magnetic mine in Maizuru Bay, off Jajima Island. 524 of the 3,725 Koreans aboard (forced-laborers and their families being repatriated) and 25 of the 255 Japanese crew were killed.[82]
25 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 25 August 1945
Ship
Country
Description
The abandoned, incomplete submarine sank at Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporationʼs Sesnhu Yard at Tanagawa, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, during a typhoon. Her wreck was refloated in April 1946.[83]
Unnamed
France Navy
The minesweeper exploded at Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône with the loss of five lives.[84]
26 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 26 August 1945
Ship
Country
Description
Christiaan Huygens
Netherlands
World War II: The passenger ship struck a mine in the Scheldt and was beached. She broke in two on 5 September and was declared a total loss.[85]
United Kingdom Navy
The Elco 70' PT boat sank at Alexandria, Egypt.[86]
28 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 28 August 1945
Ship
Country
Description
World War II: The CHa-1-classsubmarine chaser was sunk off Paramushiro (by American aircraft?).[7]
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