Category:Yawata Maru (ship, 1940)
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Ship
[edit]- Type: Passenger cargo ship, later converted to escort carrier
- Built by: Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Engineering Co., Nagasaki
- Yard No: 751
- Keel laid: 1938.12.14
- Launched: 1939.10.31
- Completed: 1940.07.31
- Length over all: 170.0 m, as escort carrier 180.2 m
- Beam: 22.5 m
- GT: 17163
- plimsoll.southampton.gov.uk
History
[edit]- 1940 Named Yawata Maru; Flag: Japan
- Port: Tokyo
- Owner: Nippon Yusen Kaisha
- 1941.10 Requisitioned as a military transport
- 1942 Renamed Un'yō; Flag: Japan
- Converted to escort carrier
- 1944.01.19 Damaged by submarine USS Haddock
- 1944.09.17 Sunk by submarine USS Barb
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