SS Yoshida Maru No. 1

Not to be confused with SS Yoshida Maru, which sank in January 1944.

History
Japan
Name:	Yoshida Maru No. 1[1]
Operator:	Yamashita Kisen K. K.
Builder:	Asano Shipbuilding Company, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama
Completed:	1919
In service:	1919 - 1944
Fate:	lost in war on 26 April 1944
General characteristics
Tonnage:	5,425 gross register tons (GRT)
Length:	121.9 m (400 ft)
Beam:	16.2 m (53 ft)
Height:	9.8 m (32 ft)
Propulsion:	1 triple expansion engine, single shaft, 1 screw
Speed:	10 knots (19 km/h)
Notes:	Steel construction

The SS Yoshida Maru No. 1 was a Japanese cargo ship owned by Yamashita Kisen K. K. The ship was built in 1919 by Asano Shipbuilding Company, at Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, and sank on 26 April 1944 with great loss of life.

History

The Yoshida Maru No. 1 was built at Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama in 1919.

World War II

Yoshida Maru No. 1 was requisitioned as a transport ship by the Imperial Japanese Navy.

In April 1944, she departed Shanghai as part of the Take Ichi convoy carrying a full Japanese regiment of the 32nd Infantry Division. On April 26, 1944 she was spotted and sunk by the submarine USS Jack. There were no survivors^[2] from the 2,586 soldiers, 81 ship's crew, and 2 armed guards aboard at the time of sinking.^[3]

See also

• List by death toll of ships sunk by submarines

Notes

1. "Yoshida Maru No.1 (+1944)". Wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 2016-08-06.
2. ShipHistory: Archived January 30, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
3. "Convoy Take Ichi" (PDF). All Japan Seamen's Union. Retrieved 2011-11-17.

References

• Blair, Clay. (2001). Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-55750-217-9; OCLC 45207785
• David L Williams (2012). In the Shadow of the Titanic: Merchant Ships Lost With Greater Fatalities The History Press