Name Kansai Maru Yard number 180 Type Cargo ship Builder Yokohama Dock Co. | Owner Harada Kisen KK Completed 1930 Length 141 m | |
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Fate Sunk by USS Scamp, 19 September 1943 | ||
The MV Kansai Maru was an 8,614-gross register ton (GRT) freighter built by Yokohama Dock Co., Yokohama, Japan, in 1930 for Harada Kisen KK. She was requisitioned by the Imperial Japanese Army as a transport in September 1941. The ship was one of the targets of the British attacks during the Battle off Endau in January 1942. Kansai Maru was sunk by the American submarine USS Scamp on 19 September 1943.
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