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Hofoku Maru

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.

Username	surveychile
Armateur	Kokusai Kisen K. K.
Ship manager
Numéro IMO
Type de navire	General Cargo
Année et chantier de construction	1918 Kawasaki Dockyard Co. Ltd.
Date
Lieu
Téléchargée le	11/10/2016
Dimension	1200 x 687
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