SS Kokai Maru (1939)
| History | |
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| Name | Kokai Maru |
| Owner |
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| Builder | Hakodate Dock Company, Hakodate, Hokkaidō |
| Launched | 1939 |
| Fate | Sunk by US aircraft on 21 February 1944 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 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) |
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.
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 / 2.500°S 150.250°E.
WikiMiniAtlasNotes[]
- ^ "Lloyd's Register 1942-43" (PDF). plimsollshipdata. Retrieved 7 November 2011.
External links[]
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- 1939 ships
- Auxiliary ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy
- Ships sunk by US aircraft
- Shipwrecks of Papua New Guinea
- Maritime incidents in February 1944
- World War II shipwrecks in the Pacific Ocean