Nankai Maru

History
Name: Nankai Maru
Launched: 1933
Identification:
  • Official number: 38116
  • Code Letters JKME
Fate: Sunk by torpedo on 12 September 1944
General characteristics
Tonnage: 8416 tons (gross), 5105 tons (net)
Length: 446.8 ft (136.2 m)
Beam: 60.5 ft (18.4 m)
Depth: 40.7 ft (12.4 m)
Installed power: 1678 NHP, built by Mitsubishi Zosen Kaisha
Propulsion: Oil engines, twin screw

The MV Nankai Maru was an 8,416-gross register ton (GRT) freighter built by Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd, Nagasaki, Japan, in 1933 for Osaka Shosen Kaisha.[1][2]

She was requisitioned by the Imperial Japanese Navy as a transport in late 1941. She participated in the invasion fleets at Midway, Milne Bay (where she was damaged by a bomb), Guadacanal (where she was also damaged by a bomb). She was struck by a dud torpedo from USS Kingfish on 8 December 1942 near Okinotorishima. On 25 December 1943, she was damaged by a torpedo from USS Seadragon near Cape St. George, New Ireland and later collided with the destroyer Uzuki. She was sunk by a torpedo from USS Sealion while travelling from Singapore on 12 September 1944 in the South China Sea east of Hainan Island at 18°42'N, 114°30'E.

Citations

  1. "Osaka Shosen Kaisha". The Ships List. Retrieved 1 March 2010.
  2. "Llyods Register 1941-42" (PDF). Plimsoll Ship Data. Retrieved 20 August 2012.

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