Category:Tōa Maru (ship, 1934)

Toa Maru 

Japanese transport ship sunk by a submarine off Gizo, Solomon Islands
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Instance of	watercraft
Location	Japan
Operator	United States Navy
8° 22′ 00.01″ N, 158° 00′ 00″ E
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Ship[edit]

• Type: Tanker
• Design by:
• Order date:
• Built by: Kawasaki, Kōbe Shipyard
• Yard No: 13
• Keel laid: 24.04.1933
• Launch date: 2.04.1934
• Date of completion: 23.06.1934
• Length over all: 160.2 m
• LPP:152.4 m
• Beam: 19.8 m
• Draught: 11.2 m
• GRT: 10213
• DWT: t
• NET:
• Main engine: 1 × MAN/Kawasaki D8Z-70/120
• Power: 8911 bhp
• Speed: 18.4 kn
• Liquid cargo: 16100 m3

History[edit]

• Named: Tōa Maru (東亜丸); Owned: Iino Lines; Flag: Japan
• 1.09.1941 Commissioned in the Imperial Japanese Fleet
• 25.11.1943 Sunk by USS Searaven (SS-196)