TÅya Maru
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The Toya Maru (Japanese洞 爷 丸) was a railway ferry Japanese National Railways (English Japanese National Railways ), which connected the island of Hokkaidō across the Tsugaru Strait to the island of Honshu. On September 26, 1954 she sank in Typhoon No. 15 ( abroad " Typhoon Marie "). The number of deaths was due to the statements of Japanese National Railways in to 1153.
History
The ship sailed the route between the ports of Aomori and Hakodate in 4.5 hours. In 1950, the Toya Maru was ever fitted one of the first Japanese ocean-going vessels with radars and was the flagship of the Tsugarustraße.
At noon on 26 September 1954 drew "Marie", the fifteenth typhoon of the season, on Honshu along and in the direction of the Japanese Sea. The typhoon was moving at a speed of over 100 km / h to the north- west [Note 1] and his arrival in the Tsugaru Strait was expected ONLY 17 clock.
At 11 clock the Toya Maru Hakodate reached on its first trip from Aomori on this day. Your departure was scheduled at 14:40 clock to get enough of the approaching typhoon "Marie" to arrive in time again in Aomori. As the passengers of the Dai 11 Seikan Maru, another ferry this route whose state but appeared to be too bad for such a bad weather crossing, were placed on the Toya Maru, the departure was delayed, however, more and more, and then the captain against 15:10 clock decided to cancel the departure of the Toya Maru.
After the whole day of bad weather had prevailed with heavy rains, the weather cleared in the afternoon around 17:00 clock on, and the captain assumed that the typhoon was over drawn so as predicted in the weather forecast. However, he neither knew that the weather service had now predicted to remain the typhoon in the area of Tsugarustraße, nor that "Marie" had won over the Sea of Japan from strength to strength and was now to be regarded as extratropical cyclone.
18:39 clock put the Toya Maru off with 1309 passengers on board in Hakodate. But shortly after the departure of the wind increased again massively, and at 19:01 clock was allowed before the port of Hakodate again drop anchor to await an improvement in the weather. The ship began because of the storm to drive at anchor. In the engine room water penetration caused by poorly designed seals in the vehicle deck, came into the system of the steam engine drive, the machine stopped and made the Toya Maru in this way to maneuver. Then decided the captain, the ship in the Nanae Bay near the outskirts to put Hakodate on the beach. At 22:26 clock the Toya Maru beached, and a distress call was sent out. The ruling could surf the Toya Maru capsized at 22:43 clock and sink a few hundred meters off the shore at position 41 ° 11 ' 36 "N, 140 ° 9' 7" O41.1932140.152. According to a publication of the National Japanese railway from September 1955 while 1,153 people [note died. 2] The same typhoon still brought four more ferry to sink, where 1,430 people were killed.
Early 1956 the wreck was raised and subsequently canceled in Japan.
Follow
Although today there is still busy ferry traffic on the Tsugaru Strait, the sinking of the Toya Maru as a decisive factor in the construction of the Seikan tunnel can be viewed.