194 (Japanese: 第百九十四號驅潜特務艇) was a No.1-class auxiliary submarine chaser of the Imperial Japanese Navy that served during World War II and with Japan during the post-war period.
[2] She was completed and commissioned on 21 August 1944,[2] fitted with armaments at the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, and assigned to the Chishima Area Base Force, Northeast Area Fleet under captain Someya Sakuji (染谷 作次)[2] and tasked with patrolling around the Kuril Islands.
[4] She conducted minesweeping operations based out of Ominato and later Shimonoseki.
[2] On 1 May 1948, she was assigned to the Japan Maritime Safety Agency, a sub-agency of the Ministry of Transportation, and designated on 1 August 1949 as patrol vessel Mizutori (みずとり) (PB-42).
[2] In August 1952, she ran aground near Sakata and was abandoned as a total loss.