Name Kashi Maru Type Cargo ship Launched 21 March 1940 Draft 4.18 m | Completed 30 April 1940 Beam 8.6 m (28 ft 3 in) Length 52 m Builder Sakurajima | |
Fate Bombed and sunk, 2 July 1943 Displacement 1,365 long tons (1,387 t) | ||
Kasi Maru or Kashi Maru (橿丸, Kashi Maru, "live oak") was a Japanese auxiliary minelayer/merchant ship, sunk in Mbaeroko Bay, near Munda, during a World War II bombing raid on 2 July 1943.
Kashi Maru was built in 1940 at the Osaka Iron Works. The ship was unloading a cargo of fuel and vehicles when she was attacked and sunk by USAAF B-25 bombers, escorted by USN F4U fighters.
The site of the shipwreck is popular for divers, and was featured in the Nature episode "War Wrecks of the Coral Seas".
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