Toyama Maru

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Nippon Kaiji Kyōkai

The Toyama Maru (Japanese富山 丸) was a Japanese merchant ship, which was sunk by the U.S. submarine Sturgeon on 29 June 1944, with around 5400 people were killed.

History

The ship was built in 1915 at the shipyard of Mitsubishi Dockyard & Engineering Works in Nagasaki and delivered to the shipping company Nippon Yusen Tokyo in June 1915. 1935/36, acquired the shipping company Nan'yō Kaiun (南洋 海运) from Tokyo, the ship and the Toyama Maru which is also based in Osaka shipping Ono Shoji (小野 商 事) 1937/38, has been transferred. During the Second World War, the ship was used for military purposes. In June 1944, the ship was as troop transports with about 6,000 soldiers of the Japanese 44th Brigade and extensive mixed gasoline inventories on the journey from Kyushu to Okinawa, where the on-board soldiers should strengthen the Japanese troops for the impending U.S. invasion. The American submarine Sturgeon (SS -187 ) torpedoed under the command of Lieutenant Commander Charlton Lewis Murphy and sank the ship at the Nansei Islands in position 27 ° 47 'N, 129 ° 5' O27.783333333333129.08333333333Koordinaten: 27 ° 47 '0 "N, 129 ° 5' 0" E, with around 5400 people died.