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Hofoku Maru

Hofoku Maru
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nationality: japanese

purpose: transport

type: cargo ship

subtype/class: Taifuku Maru No.1 class cargo (jpn.) class

Taifuku Maru No.1 class cargo (jpn.): Mount Pelion SS (+1942)

propulsion: steam

date built: 1918

details
tonnage: 5857 grt
dimensions: 117.3 x 15.5 x -- m
material: steel
engine: 1 triple expansion engine
power: 440 nominal horsepower [*]
speed: 10 knots
yard no.: 423
about the loss
cause lost: air raid

date lost: 21 September 1944

casualties: ? 161~797rank: 260

about people
last owner: Kokusai Kisen K. K.
Hofuku Maru (+1944)

period --- ~ 1944

prev. owners: Kawasaki Dockyard Co. Ltd.
Hofuku Maru

period 1918 ~ ---



SS was a Japanese transport carrying 1,289 prisoners-of-war en route from Singapore to Japan was attacked and sunk by US torpedo carrying bombers. Loaded with British and Dutch POW?s, it stopped at Manila to unload the sick and dying.

It sailed again in convoy Mata-27 and was attacked for the second time about eighty miles north of Corregidor when only three days out. It took only a few minutes for the ship to go down drowning around 1,047 men who were trapped in the holds. Less than 250 survived.

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Type of ship
General Cargo
Year of build and builder
1918 Kawasaki Dockyard Co. Ltd.
Shipowner
Kokusai Kisen K. K.

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