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Name
  
MS Nagata Maru

Fate
  
lost in war

Notes
  
Steel construction

In service
  
1937

Tonnage
  
2,969

Operator
  
Nippon Yusen Kaisha, Tokyo

The Nagata Maru (長田丸, Nagata maru) was a Japanese ocean liner owned by Nippon Yusen Kaisha, Tokyo. The ship was entered into service in 1937.

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The name Nagata Maru derives from Nagata jinja, a Shinto shrine in Nagata Ward, Kobe, Japan.

History

Nagata maru was the name of a of several Japanese vessls. In 1900, Fujinagata Shipyards completed its first all-metal construction merchant vessel; the No.2 Nagata Maru.

List of ships named Nagata Maru

  • Nagata Maru No. 1
  • Nagata Maru No. 2
  • Nagata Maru No. 3
  • Nagata Maru No. 4
  • Nagata Maru No. 5
  • Nagata Maru No. 6
  • Nagata Maru No. 7
  • Nagata Maru No. 8
  • Nagata Maru No. 9
  • Nagata Maru No. 10
  • Nagata Maru No. 11
  • Nagata Maru No. 12
  • Nagata Maru No. 13
  • Nagata Maru (1937)

    • Pacific War

    In 1939, Nagata Maru was commandeered by the Imperial Japanese Navy for use as a troopship.

    In transporting Allied prisoners, it was amongst those vessels which earned the epithet "hell ships."

    In 1944, Nagata Maru was part of a Singapore-to-Saigon convoy anchored off Cape St. Jacques in French Indochina. The ship was bombed and sunk.

    References

    Nagata Maru Wikipedia
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