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      This list of Japanese hell ships encompasses those vessels used for transporting Allied prisoners of war during the Pacific War.


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      The names of the Japanese hell ships used during World War II includes some variants which are different names referring to the same ship.

      Aikoku Maru
      Aki Maru (Japanese Kyūjitai: 安藝丸, Shinjitai: 安芸丸)
      Akikase
      Akitzuki
      Amagi Maru
      Anami Maru
      Aramis (aka Teia Maru)
      Argentina Maru
      Arisan Maru – sunk by USS Shark or USS Snook 24 October 1944. 1,773 U.S. POWs killed.
      Asaka Maru - left Keppel Harbour, Singapore, on 4 July 1944. Wrecked in a storm between Luzon and Formosa. Survivors were rescued by two Japanese navy destroyers, and boarded the Hakusan Maru which arrived in Moji, Kyushu, on 28 August 1944. According to the personal account of a British soldier who was on this voyage, the Asaka Maru was old and built in Glasgow.
      Asama Maru – sunk by USS Atule 1 November 1944. No POWs aboard.
      Awa Maru – sunk by USS Queenfish 1 April 1945. No POWs aboard.
      Benjo Maru
      Brazil Maru – bombed 15 December 1944. No POWs aboard.
      Burong
      Buyo Maru
      Celebes Maru
      Chichibu Maru – sunk by USS Gudgeon 28 April 1943. No POWs aboard.
      Cho Saki Maru
      Chuka Maru
      Chuyo – sunk by USS Sailfish 4 December 1943. 20 of the 21 POWs aboard died.
      Clyde Maru
      Coral Maru
      Dai Moji Maru
      Dai Nichi Maru
      Daikeku Maru
      Dainichi Maru
      England Maru
      Enoshima Maru
      Enoura Maru – sunk by Allied aircraft on 9 January 1945, resulting in the deaths of approximately 400 Allied POWs.
      Enuri Maru
      Erie Maru
      France Maru
      Fuji Maru
      Fukkai Maru
      Fuku Maru
      Fukuji Maru
      Fukuju Maru
      Hakuroku Maru
      Hakusan Maru – sunk by USS Flier 4 June 1944. No POWs aboard.
      Hakushika Maru
      Haru Maru
      Harugiku Maru (治菊丸, formerly Van Waerwijck – sunk by HMS Truculent 26 June 1944, 180 of 720 POWs and 27 of 55 Japanese troops killed.
      Haruyasa Maru
      Hawaii Maru (はわい丸, Hawai Maru)
      Heiyo Maru
      Hioki Maru
      Hiyoki Maru
      Hofuku Maru – sunk on 21 September 1944 by American aircraft, while carrying 1,289 British and Dutch POWs. 1,047 of them died.
      Hokko Maru
      Hokusen Maru (北鮮丸)
      Hozan Maru
      Ikoma Maru – sunk on 21 January 1944 by USS Seahorse. 418 of 611 Indian POWs aboard were killed.
      Ikuta Maru
      Imabari Maru (formerly De Klerk)
      Interisland Steamer
      Junyō Maru – torpedoed 18 November 1944 with loss of over 5,000 lives, including 1,300 POWs
      Kachidoki Maru – sunk by Pampanito on 12 September 1944. Of 900 POWs, 400 perished. The remaining were transferred to the Kibitsu Maru and taken on to Japan
      Kaishun Maru
      Kaiun Maru
      Kakko Maru
      Kalgan Maru
      Kamakura Maru – sunk by USS Gudgeon on 28 April 1943. No POWs aboard.
      Kenkon Maru (乾坤丸)
      Kenwa Maru
      Kenzan Maru
      Kiaota Maru
      Kibitzu Maru
      Kohho Maru
      Kokusei Maru
      Konosue Maru
      Koryu Maru
      Kōshū Maru – sunk by USS Ray on 4 August 1944. 1,239 out of 1,513 POWs, most of them Javanese labourers, died.
      Kunishima Maru
      Kurimata Maru
      Kyokko Maru
      Kyokusei Maru
      Lima Maru
      Lisbon Maru (りすぼん丸, Risubon Maru) – sunk by Grouper on 2 October 1944. Of the 1,816 British POWs, 842 perished.
      Maebashi Maru (前橋丸, Maebashi Maru)
      Makassar Maru
      Maros Maru
      Maru Go (5)
      Maru Hachi (8)
      Maru Ichi (1)
      Maru Ni (2)
      Maru No. 760
      Maru Roku
      Maru San (3)
      Maru Shi (4)
      Maru Shichi (7)
      Mati Mati Maru
      Matsu Maru
      Matti Matti Maru
      Maya Maru
      Mayebassi Maru
      Melbourne Maru
      Mishima Maru
      Miyo Maru
      Moji Maru
      Montevideo Maru (もんてびでお丸, Montebideo Maru) – sunk by Sturgeon on 1 July 1942. all 1,054 Australian POWs and civilians died.
      Nagara Maru
      Nagata Maru
      Nagato Maru
      Nanshin Maru
      Naruto Maru
      Natoru Maru
      Nichimei Maru – Sunk on 15 January 1943 by U.S. aircraft, transporting 1,500 Japanese troops and 965 Dutch POWs of which 32 POWs died.
      Nishi Maru
      Nissyo Maru
      Nitikoku Maru
      Nitimei Maru
      Nitta Maru
      Yoshida Maru No. 1
      No. 2 Hikawa Maru
      No. 6 Kotobuki Maru
      No. 7 Hoshi Maru
      No. 17 Nanshin Maru
      Noto Maru
      Oite
      Oryoki Maru
      Oryokko Maru
      Oryoku Maru – sunk by U.S. airplanes on 15 December 1944, killing 270 of the 1,620 POWs aboard.
      OSK Ferry
      Otaro Maru
      Oyo Maru
      Pacific Maru
      Panama Maru
      Raihei Maru
      Rakuyō Maru – sunk by USS Sealion on 12 September 1944. Of 1,317 POWs, 1,159 POWs perished. 63 were rescued four days later by the submarines that sank the convoy she was in
      Rashin Maru (羅津丸)
      Rendsberg
      Rio de Janeiro Maru
      Roko Maru
      Rokyo Maru
      Ryūkyū Maru
      Samurusan Maru
      San Diego Maru
      Sandakan Steamer
      Sanko Maru
      Seikyo Maru
      Sekiho Maru (formerly Canadian Inventor)
      Shinsei Maru
      SS Shinyō Maru – sunk on 7 September 1944 by USS Paddle. 668 out of 750 American POWs aboard were killed.
      Shinyu Maru – damaged on 25 October 1942 by Dutch submarine HNLMS O 23 and abandoned. Some 100 out of 500 POWs drowned.
      Shoun Maru
      Sibijac
      Singapore Maru – left Batavia in Java 17 October 1942 with 3,000 British prisoners, arrived Moji, Japan, (via Singapore) 25 November 1942, 108 died on the journey.
      Singoto Maru
      Soong Cheong
      Subuk
      Suez Maru – sunk on 29 November 1943 by USS Bonefish. All 550 British, Dutch, Irish and New Zealand FEPOWs died. Some 300 died in the initial explosion from the two torpedo impacts and the ship's boiler exploding, both in the vicinity of these casualties in the rearmost Hold 4, or drowned on the sinking of the ship or were later shot after some 7-8 hours struggling in the sea. They were NOT trying to escape. The Japanese aboard the escort minesweeper set up twenty riflemen and two machineguns and deliberately massacred the c.250 PoW survivors in the water. The massacre was the subject of a detailed war crime investigation (National Archives of Australia NAA/MP-742) and the subject of two books (Jones, A 2002, The Suez maru Atrocity) and (Frith, J 2020, Unwritten Letters to Spring Street).
      Sugi Maru
      Suzuya Maru (formerly Hokkai Maru No. 1 also colloquially known as No. 107 or Otaru, Otari, or Otaro Maru)
      Tachibana Maru
      Taga Maru
      Taian Maru
      Taiko Maru
      Taikoku Maru
      Taka Maru
      Tamahoko Maru – sunk on 25 February 1944 by USS Tang. 560 of the 772 Australian, British, American and Dutch prisoners were killed.
      Tango Maru (formerly Rendsburg, formerly Toendjoek) – sunk on 25 February 1944 by USS Rasher. Some 300 allied POWs were amongst the 3,000 killed.
      Tanjong Penang
      Tateishi Maru, colloquially known as No. 86
      Tatsuta Maru
      Tattori Maru
      Tatu Maru
      Teia Maru (帝亞丸・帝亜丸)
      Teiryu Maru (formerly Northwestern Miller, formerly Augsberg), colloquially known as No. 824
      Tenno Maru, formerly Op Ten Noort, scuttled as Hikawa Maru No. 2
      Tenshin Maru
      Thames Maru
      Tiensen
      Tofuku Maru
      Tojuku Maru
      Toka Maru
      Toko Maru
      Tomohoku Maru
      Toro Maru
      Tottori Maru
      Toyama Maru
      Toyofuku Maru
      Toyohashi Maru
      Tufuku Maru
      Ube Maru
      Ume Maru
      Umeda Maru
      Un'yō
      Uruppu Maru
      Ussuri Maru
      Usu Maru
      Wales Maru
      Weills Maru
      Winchester Maru
      Yamagata Maru
      Yashu Maru
      Yinagata Maru
      Yone Maru
      Yoshida Maru – sunk on 18 January 1944 by USS Flasher.
      Yubi Maru
      Yuzan Maru


      See also


      Prisoner-of-war camp
      List of POW camps in Japan


      Notes




      Sources


      Crager, Kelly E. (2008). Hell Under the Rising Sun: Texan POWs and the Building of the Burma – Thailand Death Railway. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 1585446351; ISBN 9781585446353; OCLC 145378792
      Michno, Gregory. (2001). Death on the Hellships: Prisoners at Sea in the Pacific War. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1557504822; ISBN 9781557504821; OCLC 45757730
      Parkinson, James W. and Lee Benson (2006). Soldier Slaves: Abandoned by the White House, Courts, and Congress. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1591142040; ISBN 9781591142041; OCLC 63116439
      Roscoe, Theodore and Richard G Voge (1949). United States Submarine Operations in World War II. Annapolis: United States Naval Institute. OCLC 1127592


      References




      External links


      "Hell Ships". Britain at War. Retrieved July 22, 2009.
      "Sea transports". Japanse krijgsgevangenkampen. Retrieved October 21, 2016.

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