| SS Yoshida Maru | |
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File:Yoshida-Maru.jpg Yoshida Maru No. 1 | |
| Career (Japan) | ![Civil naval ensign ([Hinmaru])](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg){kind=small} |
| Name: | Yoshida Maru No. 1 [1] |
| Operator: | Nippon Yusen (NYK) |
| Builder: | Hakodate Dock at Hakodate, Hokkaidō |
| Completed: | August 1941 |
| In service: | 1941 |
| Out of service: | 1944 |
| Fate: | lost in war |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage: | 2,921 gross register tons (GRT) |
| Length: | 93 m (305 ft) |
| Beam: | 13.8 m (45 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 1 turbine, single screw |
| Speed: | 11 knots (20 km/h) |
| Notes: | Steel construction |
The Yoshida Maru No.1 (第一吉田丸) was a Japanese cargo ship owned by Nippon Yusen Kaisha. The ship was built in 1941 by Hakodate Dock at Hakodate on the northern island of Hokkaidō.
History
The Yoshida Maru No.1 was built at Hakodate; and she left port in August 1941 on her maiden voyage.[2]
The 2,921-ton vessel had a length of 310 feet (93 m), and her beam was 45 feet (13.8 m). The single turbine, single screw propulsion produced an average speed of 11 knots (20 km/h).[2]
Pacific War
Yoshida Maru No.1 was requisitioned as a transport ship of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
In April 1944, she departed Shanghai as part of the Take Ichi convoy carrying a full Japanese regiment of the 32nd Infantry Division. On April 26, 1944 she was spotted and sunk by the submarine USS Jack. There were no survivors[3] from the 2,586 soldiers, 81 ship's crew, and 2 armed guards aboard at the time of sinking.[4]
See also
- List of Japanese hell ships
- List by death toll of ships sunk by submarines
- Foreign commerce and shipping of Empire of Japan
Notes
- ↑ "Yoshida Maru No. 1 Passenger/cargo ship 1919-1944". Wrecksite.eu. http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?137602. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Haworth, R.B. Miramar Ship Index: Yoshida Maru, ID#4048724.
- ↑ ShipHistory: Yoshida Maru, April 26, 1944.
- ↑ "Convoy Take Ichi". All Japan Seamen's Union. http://www.jsu.or.jp/siryo/sunk/pdf/take.pdf. Retrieved 2011-11-17.
References
- Blair, Clay. (2001). Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. 10-ISBN 1-55750-217-X; 13-ISBN 978-1-55750-217-9; OCLC 45207785
- Ponsonby-Fane, Richard Arthur Brabazon. (1935). The Nomeclature of the N.Y.K. Fleet. Tokyo : Nippon Yusen Kaisha. OCLC 27933596
- Tate, E. Mowbray. (1986). Transpacific steam: the story of steam navigation from the Pacific Coast of North America to the Far East and the Antipodes, 1867-1941. New York: Cornwall Books. 10-ISBN 0-8453-4792-6; 13-ISBN 978-0-8453-4792-8; OCLC 12370774
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