Yoshino Maru
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| History | |
|---|---|
 Germany | |
| Name | Kleist |
| Owner |  Norddeutscher Lloyd |
| Builder | Schichau-Werke, Danzig |
| Launched | 3 December 1906 |
| In service | 1907-1919 |
| Out of service | 1919 |
| Captured | in Padang 1919 |
 Japan | |
| Name | Yoshino Maru |
| Owner |  Nippon Yusen |
| In service | 1921-1944 |
| Out of service | 31 July 1944 |
| Fate | Sunk, 31 July 1944 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Ocean liner |
| Tonnage | 8,950 GRT |
| Length | 141.3 m |
| Beam | 17.5 m |
| Depth | 11.9 m |
| Propulsion | 2 x 4 cyl. Quadruple expansion engines, dual shaft, 2 screws |
| Speed | 14.5 knots |
| Notes | [1] |
Yoshino Maru (Kanji:吉野丸) was an 8,950-ton Japanese troop transport during World War II, which sank on 31 July 1944 with great loss of life.
Yoshino Maru was built in 1907 as Kleist for the Norddeutscher Lloyd by the Schichau-Werke in Danzig, Germany. In 1919, she was ceded to the United Kingdom as war reparation, who sold her in 1921 to the Japanese government, where she was renamed Yoshino Maru. In 1929, she was sold to Kinkai Yusen and used as an ocean liner. At the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War, she was requisitioned as a transport ship by the Imperial Japanese Navy.
On 31 July 1944, she was travelling in Convoy MI-11 from Moji, Japan, to Miri, Borneo, with 5,063 soldiers on board,[2] when the convoy was attacked by a United States Navy submarine wolfpack. At 3:40 AM, USS Parche (SS-384) torpedoed and sank Yoshino Maru with four torpedoes; losses aboard ship included 2,442 soldiers, as well as 18 gunners, 35 crewmen, and 400 cubic meters (14,120 cubic feet) of ammunition.[3]
See also[]
- List by death toll of ships sunk by submarines
- List of battles and other violent events by death toll
References[]
- ^ "Yoshino Maru (+1944)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 2016-08-15.
- ^ "Yoshino Maru". combinedfleet.com. Retrieved 2016-08-15.
- ^ David L Williams (October 2012). In the Shadow of the Titanic: Merchant Ships Lost With Greater Fatalities. ISBN 9780752477138. Retrieved 2016-08-15.
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