SS Yoshida Maru
The Yoshida Maru (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.
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| Name: | Yoshida Maru [1] |
| Operator: |
 Nippon Yusen (NYK) |
| Builder: | Hakodate Dock at Hakodate, Hokkaidō |
| Completed: | August 1941 |
| In service: | 1941 - 1944 |
| Fate: | Torpedoed and sunk by the submarine USS Flasher, 18 February 1944 |
| 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 |
History
The Yoshida Maru 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]
World War II
Yoshida Maru was requisitioned as an auxiliary gunboat/minelayer and transport ship of the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was armed with 3 guns of 12 cm and machineguns.
On 18 January 1944, she was sunk by the submarine USS Flasher at 140 miles west-southwest of Minami-Tori-shima, 23°50′N 151°28′E.[3]
Notes
- "Yoshida Maru Passenger/cargo ship 1919-1944". Wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 2015-02-21.
- Haworth, R.B. Miramar Ship Index: Yoshida Maru, ID#4048724.
- "The Official Chronology of The US Navy in World War II". HyperWar Foundation. Retrieved 2015-02-21.
References
- Blair, Clay. (2001). Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-55750-217-9; OCLC 45207785
- Ponsonby-Fane, Richard Arthur Brabazon. (1935). The Nomenclature 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. ISBN 978-0-8453-4792-8;
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