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List of Japanese hell ships

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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.

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  • Aikoku Maru
  • Aki Maru (Japanese Kyūjitai: 安藝丸, Shinjitai: 安芸丸)Michno, Gregory. (2001). Death on the Hellships: Prisoners at Sea in the Pacific War, p. 93; n.b., Aki Maru (11,409 GT).
  • Akikase
  • AkitzukiMichno, p. 207; n.b., the destroyer Akitsuki carried POWs, sunk in Battle of Leyte Gulf off Cape Engaño.
  • Amagi MaruMichno, p. 93; n.b., Amagi Maru (3,165 GT), former NYK Line ship
  • Anami Maru
  • Aramis (aka Teia Maru)
  • Argentina MaruAikoku Maru (1940)
  • Arisan Maru – sunk by {{USS|Shark|SS-314|6}} or {{USS|Snook|SS-279|6}} 24 October 1944.https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/u/united-states-submarine-losses/shark-2-ss-314.html . Retrieved 27 September 2022[http://www.west-point.org/ WestPoint.org website]: [http://www.west-point.org/family/japanese-pow/Rosters.htm POW Registers website] 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. {{cn|date=September 2019}}
  • Asama Maru – sunk by {{USS|Atule||6}} 1 November 1944. No POWs aboard.{{efn|name=NE}}
  • Awa Maru{{efn|name=NE|Formerly in the fleet of N.Y.K Lines}} – sunk by {{USS|Queenfish|SS-393|6}} 1 April 1945. No POWs aboard.
  • Benjo Maru
  • Brazil Maru{{efn|name=DD|Formerly in the fleet of O.S.K. Lines}} – bombed 15 December 1944. No POWs aboard.
  • Burong
  • Buyo Maru
  • Celebes Maru[http://sites.google.com/site/powsofthejapanese/Home POWs of the Japanese website]: [http://sites.google.com/site/powsofthejapanese/Home/hellships-information-photos/celebes-maru Celebes Maru]
  • Chichibu Maru – sunk by {{USS|Gudgeon|SS-211|6}} 28 April 1943. No POWs aboard.
  • Cho Saki Maru
  • Chuka Maru{{efn|name=DD}}
  • Chuyo – sunk by {{USS|Sailfish|SS-192|6}} 4 December 1943. 20 of the 21 POWs aboard died.
  • Clyde MaruPOWs of the Japanese website: [http://sites.google.com/site/powsofthejapanese/Home/hellships-information-photos/clyde-maru Clyde Maru]
  • Coral Maru
  • Dai Moji MaruCrager, Kelly E. (2008). [https://books.google.com/books?id=wLWQSU0GhZQC&pg=PA73 Hell Under the Rising Sun: Texan POWs and the Building of the Burma – Thailand Death Railway, p. 73.]
  • Dai Nichi MaruCrager, [https://books.google.com/books?id=wLWQSU0GhZQC&pg=PA57 p. 57.]
  • Daikeku Maru
  • {{SS|Dainichi Maru|Mitsui Bussan, 1922|2}}
  • England Maru
  • Enoshima Maru
  • Enoura Maru – sunk by Allied aircraft on 9 January 1945, resulting in the deaths of approximately 400 Allied POWs.[http://www.powtaiwan.org Taiwan POW Camps Memorial Society]: [http://www.powtaiwan.org/maru/enoura_maru_story.htm The Story of the Enoura Maru and the Men Who Died] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090624020353/http://www.powtaiwan.org/maru/enoura_maru_story.htm |date=2009-06-24 }}
  • Enuri Maru
  • Erie Maru

See also

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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

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External links

  • {{cite web | title=Hell Ships | work=Britain at War | url=http://www.britain-at-war.org.uk/WW2/Hell_Ships/ | access-date=July 22, 2009 }}
  • {{cite web | title=Sea transports | work=Japanse krijgsgevangenkampen | url=http://www.japansekrijgsgevangenkampen.nl/Zeetransporten%20alf%20NE.htm | access-date=October 21, 2016 }}

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