IJN Hino Maru #2
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Hino
Maru #2 was a cargo freighter laid down
by Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kobe Zosensho in Japan in May
1935, and was launched four months later for the company
Nippon Shokuen Kaiso KK. She was requisitioned by the
Imperial Japanese Navy in December 1941. She was given
various tasks and was used as a supply vessel before she
was re-classified as a gun boat in March 1942. The year
after she is officially listed as a military transport.
While she laid at anchor outside Uman Island 30. April
1944, she was bombed and damged by American airplanes
from US Task Force 58. According to Japanese records she
sank four days later and was stricken from the Navy
lists 10. May 1944. The battered and flattened remains
of her rest today on a depth of 3 to 22 meter on the
west side of Uman Island near Tewinipa, north of the
wreck of the steamer
Sankisan Maru.
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 Picture: IJN Hino Maru #2 第二日の丸 after the attack Courtesy of National Archives, Public domain Last updated: March 2021 |
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