SS Nikkin Maru

Nikkin Maru
History
Japan
BuilderJ. F. Duthie & Company, Seattle
Launched20 December 1919
In service1920-1944
FateSunk, 30 June 1944
General characteristics
TypeTroop transport
Tonnage5,587 GRT
Armamentdepth charge launchers

Nikkin Maru (日錦丸) was a 5,587-ton Japanese troop transport during World War II, which sank on 30 June 1944 with great loss of life.

Nikkin Maru was originally built in January 1920 as the West Ivan by the J. F. Duthie & Company in Seattle for the United States Shipping Board Merchant Fleet Corporation. Renamed Golden West in 1928 and Canadian in 1937, she was confiscated by the Japanese in 1941 and renamed Hokusei Maru and finally Nikkin Maru.[1]

Requisitioned by the IJA in early 1943.[2] On 30 June 1944, Nikkin Maru was transporting around 3,200 men of the Japanese 23rd Army from Korea to Japan. The unescorted Nikkin Maru was discovered by the US submarine USS Tang and torpedoed and sunk in the Yellow Sea off Mokpo, Korea, at position 35°05´N, 125°00´E.[3] Probably all 3,400 soldiers and crew members drowned, .[4][5][6]

See also

References

  1. ^ "J.F Duthie". J.F Duthie. Archived from the original on 2011-10-10. Retrieved 2016-08-06.
  2. ^ "Japanese Army Auxiliary Transports". www.combinedfleet.com. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
  3. ^ "Nikkin Maru (+1944)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 2016-08-06.
  4. ^ David L Williams (October 2012). In the Shadow of the Titanic: Merchant Ships Lost With Greater Fatalities. The History Press. ISBN 9780752477138. Retrieved 2016-08-06.
  5. ^ "Nikkin Maru - Casualties (日錦丸の被害)" (PDF) (in Japanese). All Japan Seamen's Union. Retrieved 2016-08-06.
  6. ^ "Japanese Army Auxiliary Transports". www.combinedfleet.com. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
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Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in June 1944
Shipwrecks
  • 1 Jun: USS Herring
  • 3 Jun: U-477, WBS 2 Coburg
  • 5 Jun: V 622 Almuth, USS Osprey
  • 6 Jun: USS Corry, USS LCI(L)-93, Minazuki, USS PC-1261, HNoMS Svenner, V 421 Rauzan, HMS Wrestler
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  • 10 Jun: USS Glennon, Innsbruck, Mistral, Ro-111, U-821
  • 11 Jun: USS Partridge, Ro-42, U-980
  • 12 Jun: Kainan Maru, HMS Sickle, U-490, V 206 Otto Bröhan, V 212 Friedrich Busse
  • 13 Jun: HMS Boadicea, I-33, Ro-36, U-715
  • 14 Jun: USS Golet
  • 15 Jun: HMS Blackwood, M 507, PA 1, PA 2, Shiratsuyu, U-860, U-987, V 202 Franz Westermann
  • 16 Jun: I-6, Ro-44, U-998
  • 17 Jun: Ro-114, Ro-117
  • 18 Jun: Albert C. Field, U-767
  • 19 Jun: I-184, Shōkaku, Taihō
  • 20 Jun: Hiyō, HMAS Matafele
  • 21 Jun: Bolzano, HMS Fury
  • 22 Jun: Eurydice, I-185, Sirène
  • 24 Jun: Derrycunihy, I-52, U-971, U-1225
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  • 30 Jun: SS Nikkin Maru, U-478, V 422 Kergroise
  • Unknown date: Bosna, USS LCT-209, U-740
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