SS Ryūsei Maru
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Name | SS Ryusei Maru |
Builder | Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. |
Yard number | 177 |
Launched | 1911 |
Fate | Sunk, 25 February 1944 |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage | 4,777 GRT |
Length | 117.3 m (385 ft) |
Beam | 15.5 m (51 ft) |
Draft | 8.4 m (28 ft) |
Installed power | Triple expansion steam engine 349 hp (260 kW) |
Propulsion | Single screw |
Speed | 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph) |
SS Ryusei Maru (隆西丸, Ryūsei Maru) was a Japanese transport ship that was sunk by USS Rasher on 25 February 1944. Nearly 5,000 lives were lost.
See also[]
- List by death toll of ships sunk by submarines
- Imperial Japanese Army Railways and Shipping Section
- Foreign commerce and shipping of Empire of Japan
References[]
- "Ryusei Maru (+1944)". Wreck Site. Retrieved 2 September 2013.
Categories:
- Maritime incidents in February 1944
- Ships sunk by American submarines
- World War II shipwrecks in the Pacific Ocean
- Japan naval ship stubs
- World War II stubs