 On 12 December 1944 USAAF aircraft bombed and damaged "Katata" near Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province at (she was possibly sunk and salvaged).She was towed to Shanghai and stripped of her armament in early 1945 to help bolster the land-based defenses.The hulk was bombed by USAAF P-51 Mustang fighters on 2 April 1945 and remained wrecked to the surrender of Japan.