Early today Monday 11th November the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) Sugashima Class Coastal Minesweeper JS UKUSHIMA MSC 686 capsized and sank off Japan’s western coast about 2.5 kilometres off Oshima Island in Fukuoka Prefecture after a fire broke in her engine room on Sunday 10th, November.
Homeported at Sasebo, Japan she was commissioned on 18th March, 2003. Her 40-member crew was evacuated to a nearby vessel around 1545 hrs local time, except for one missing sailor, identified as Petty Officer 3rd Class Tatsunori Koga, age 33, who was on duty in the engine room at the time of the incident.
Another crew member in his 20s, also present in the engine room, suffered smoke inhalation injuries and was hospitalized but is expected to recover.
Admiral Akira Saito of the JMSDF said on November 10 that firefighting efforts were still underway at 2030 hrs warning that the vessel could sink if the fire was not controlled.
Both images are of the training ship JS KASHIMA TV 3508 entering Valletta, Malta during her maiden call back to July 2005.
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