SS Kokai Maru (1939)

The Kokai Maru was a 3,871-gross register ton passenger cargo ship built by Hakodate Dock Company, Hakodate, Hokkaidō for Simatani Kisen Kabushiki Kaisha in 1939. She was requisitioned in 1941 by the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. On 10 March 1942, during the invasion of Lae-Salamaua, Kokai Maru was damaged by SBD's from the United States Navy aircraft carriers USS Lexington and USS Yorktown off Lae, New Guinea.

History
Name: Kokai Maru
Owner:
Builder: Hakodate Dock Company, Hakodate, Hokkaidō
Launched: 1939
Fate: Sunk by US aircraft on 21 February 1944
Status: Shipwreck
General characteristics
Displacement: 3,871 GRT
Length: 340.4 feet (103.8 m)[1]
Beam: 48.2 feet (14.7 m)
Draught: 26.2 feet (8.0 m)

Fate

On 21 February 1944, as part of a convoy off New Hanover Island, Kokai Maru was hit by bombs from United States Army Air Forces B-25 Mitchell aircraft, and sunk at 02°30′S 150°15′E.

Notes
  1. "Lloyd's Register 1942-43" (PDF). plimsollshipdata. Retrieved 7 November 2011.

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