Mayasan Maru
Japanese landing craft depot ship (1942–1944) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mayasan Maru (摩耶山丸) was a Japanese landing craft depot ship used extensively to transport Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) troops during 1943 and 1944. After avoiding damage in seven separate submarine attacks in earlier convoys, she was sunk in the East China Sea by the submarine USS Picuda on 17 November 1944 while part of Convoy Hi-81. The sinking caused one of the highest maritime casualty counts of World War II. Some 3,536 people died.
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Name | Mayasan Maru |
Builder | Mitsui Shipbuilding, Tamano, Japan |
Laid down | 27 August 1941 |
Launched | 29 June 1942 |
Completed | 14 December 1942 |
Commissioned | December 1942 |
Fate | Sunk, 17 November 1944 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Type | Landing Craft Depot Ship |
Displacement | 11,910 long tons (12,101 t) standard |
Length | 459 ft 1 in (139.93 m) |
Beam | 62 ft 4 in (19.00 m) |
Depth | 23 ft 1 in (7.04 m) |
Propulsion | 10,800 hp (8,054 kW) diesel engines |
Speed | 20.8 knots (38.5 km/h; 23.9 mph) |
Boats & landing craft carried | 20 × Daihatsu class landing craft |
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Aviation facilities | flight deck |
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