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English: CAPTAIN POWER VISITS DAMAGED JAPANESE CRUISER MYOKO. 25 SEPTEMBER 1945, SINGAPORE. IN MAY 1944, FIVE SHIPS OF THE TWENTY-SIXTH DESTROYER FLOTILLA ATTACHED TO THE BRITISH EAST INDIES FLEET, LED BY HMS SAUMAREZ, WITH CAPTAIN M L POWER, CBE, OBE, DSO AND BAR, AS CAPTAIN (D), SANK THE JAPANESE CRUISER HAGURO IN ONE HOURS ACTION AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE MALACCA STRAIT. WHEN SAUMAREZ ENTERED SINGAPORE NAVAL BASE, CAPTAIN POWER WITH HIS STAFF OFFICERS PAID A VISIT TO MYOKO, SISTER SHIP OF HAGURO, NOW LYING THERE WITH HER STERN BLOWN OFF AFTER THE BATTLE OF THE PHILIPPINES. CROSSING TO THE DECK OF THE MYOKO VIA THE CONNING TOWER OF A GERMAN U-BOAT, CAPTAIN POWER AND HIS PARTY WERE MET BY JAPANESE OFFICERS WHO TOOK THEM ON A COMPREHENSIVE TOUR OF THE SHIP.
The damaged Japanese cruiser MYOKO. The 2 U-boats tied up alongside were I-501 (ex German U-181) and I-502 (ex German U-862), also captured at Singapore.
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Author Trusler, C (Lt)
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Picture of Japanese cruiser Myōkō in Singapore in 1945

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