Name Kokai Maru Displacement 3,871 gross ton Length 104 m Draft 7.99 m | Status Shipwreck Launched 1939 Weight 3,933 tons Beam 15 m | |
Owner Simatani Kisen Kabushiki Kaisha (1939-1941)
Imperial Japanese Navy (1941-1944) Builder Hakodate Dock Company, Hakodate, Hokkaidō Fate Sunk by US aircraft on 21 February 1944 | ||
The Kokai Maru was a 3,871 gross ton passenger cargo ship built by Hakodate Dock Company, Hakodate, Hokkaidō for Simatani Kisen Kabushiki Kaisha in 1939. She was requisitioned in 1941 by the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. On 10 March 1942, during the invasion of Lae-Salamaua, Kokai Maru was damaged by SBD’s from the United States Navy aircraft carriers USS Lexington and USS Yorktown off Lae, New Guinea.
Fate
On 21 February 1944, as part of a convoy off New Hanover Island, Kokai Maru was hit by bombs from United States Army Air Forces B-25 Mitchell aircraft, and sunk at 02°30′S 150°15′E.
References
SS Kokai Maru (1939) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA