IJN Tokai Maru
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Tokai
Maru was a Japanese cargo freighter built at Mitsubishi
Industries in Nagasaki, and was launched in May 1930 for
the company Osaka Shosen K.K She was requisitioned by
the Imperial Japanese navy in October 1941 and
used as a military transport ship. While she laid at
anchor in Guam she was torpedoed and damaged by the
American submarine USS Flying Fish 24.January 1943, and
thereafter sunk by two torpedoes from USS Snapper 27.August 1943. The
wreck rest today on her port side next to the wreck of SMS
Cormoran on a depth of 14 to 38 meter in Apra
Harbor. A big hole in her hull on the port side clearly
bear the marks from the sinking in 1943.
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| 13.27.34 N 144.39.23 E ( Source: Dive Guam )  Picture: Tokai Maru From"War in the Pacific" Last updated: January 2021 |
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