Tamahoko Maru
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SS Tamahoko Maru was a Japanese passenger-cargo ship, used as a hell ship, which was torpedoed by submarine USS Tang on 24 June 1944, carrying 772 Allied POWs of which 560 died.
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History | |
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Japan | |
Name | Tamahoko Maru |
Owner | Kaiyo Kisen K. K. |
Builder | Harima Dock Company |
Launched | 1919 |
Completed | March 1919 |
In service | 1919-1944 |
Fate | Sunk by USS Tang, 24 June 1944 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Passenger-cargo ship |
Tonnage | 6,780 tons[1] |
Length | 129.5 m |
Beam | 17.7 m |
Draught | 8.84 m |
Speed | 13.2 knots |
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