| 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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