Category:Atsuta Maru (ship, 1909)

Ship[edit]

• Type: Passenger steamship, Kamo Maru class
• Built by: Mitsubishi Dockyard & Engineering Works
• Yard No: 197
• Keel laid: 1908.06.10
• Launched: 1908.10.21
• Completed: 1909.05.03
• Length over all: 473.9 ft
• Beam: 54.7 ft
• GT: 8520
• DWT:
• www.combinedfleet.com
• www.wrecksite.eu
• plimsoll.southampton.gov.uk

History[edit]

• 1909 Named Atsuta Maru; Flag: Japan
  • Call sign: LHOV, JATD
  • Port: Tokyo
  • Owner: Nippon Yusen KK
• 1938 Renamed Atuta Maru; Flag: Japan
  • Call sign: JATD
  • Port: Tokyo
  • Owner: Nippon Yusen KK
• 1941.09 Requisitioned by Imperial Japanese Army
• 1942.05.30 Hit by torpedoes from USS Pompano (SS-181)
• 1942.06.03 Sinks after burning for five days