Tamahoko Maru

SS Tamahoko Maru was a Japanese passenger-cargo ship, used as a hell ship, which was torpedoed by submarine USS Tang on 24 June 1944, carrying 772 Allied POWs of which 560 died.

Tamahoko Maru
History
Japan
Name: Tamahoko Maru
Owner: Kaiyo Kisen K. K.
Builder: Harima Dock Company
Launched: 1919
In service: 1919-1944
Out of service: 24 June 1944
Fate: Sunk, 24 June 1944
General characteristics
Type: Passenger-cargo ship
Tonnage: 6,780 tons[1]
Length: 129.5 m
Beam: 17.7 m
Draught: 8.84 m
Speed: 13.2 knots

Service history

Tamahoko Maru sailed on 20 June 1944 with 772 POWs (197 British, 42 American, 258 Australian and 281 Dutch) from Takao for Moji in convoy HO-02. There were also some 500 Japanese soldiers on board. On 24 June 1944 at 11:50 pm, in the Koshiki Straits 40 miles SW of Nagasaki, the Tamahoko Maru was torpedoed by USS Tang and sank in less than 2 minutes at 32-24N, 129-38E.[2]

An escort picked up the Japanese survivors and left the POWs in the water, to be picked up the next morning by a small whaling ship, which brought 212 survivors to Nagasaki. They spent the rest of the war in the Fukuoka 14 prison camp. The other 560 POWs, 35 crewmen and an unknown number of Japanese soldiers were lost.[3]

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References
  1. "Tamahoko Maru (+1944)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 2016-10-30.
  2. "IJA Transport TAMAHOKO (ex-YONE) MARU : Tabular Record of Movement". Combinedfleet.com. Retrieved 2016-10-30.
  3. "SS TAMAHOKO MARU". Australian POWS WW2. Archived from the original on 2014-10-06. Retrieved 2016-10-30.
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