Japanese Stores Ship Hokkai Maru (1934)
History
Hokkai Maru was laid down on 12 September 1933 by Mitsubishi Zosen K.K. at their Kobe shipyard at the behest of the Nippon Suisan K.K. as a refrigerated deep sea trawler. Her sister trawlers became stores ships Tōkō Maru No. 2 Go and Hakurei Maru. She was launched on 15 March 1934 and completed on 15 May 1934. She was made of steel. She was a fishing trawler until she was requisitioned by the Imperial Japanese Navy in October 1937. Returned to her owners November-December 1938. Re-requisitioned in 1939. returned to her owners 23 May 1940. Re-requisitioned 7 August 1940.
On 7 May, 1942 she rescued twenty three survivors from a raft from Auxiliary merchant cruiser Kinjosan Maru, torpedoed and sunk by USS Greenling on the 4th.
On 22 November 1944, she was attacked and sunk by torpedoes fired from the American submarine USS Scabbardfish at (33°20′N 142°00′E / 33.333°N 142.000°E). She was struck from the Navy List on 10 January 1944.
References
- ^ Toda, Gengoro S. "Tokusetsu Unsosen (Kyuryosen) (stores ship) stats" (PDF). Imperial Japanese Navy (in Japanese).
- ^ ONI 208-J (Supplement no. 2) Far Eastern Small Craft. Division of Naval Intelligence. March 1945. p. 31.
- ^ Toda, Gengoro S. (21 September 2019). "北海丸の船歴 (Hokkai Maru - Ship History)". Imperial Japanese Navy - Tokusetsukansen (in Japanese).
- ^ Toda, Gengoro S. "Tokusetsu Unsosen (Kyuryosen) (Page 2)". Imperial Japanese Navy (in Japanese).
- ^ "Japanese Auxiliary Storeships". Combinedfleet.com. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
- ^ Rohwer, Jürgen; Gerhard Hümmelchen. "Seekrieg 1944, November". Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart (in German). Retrieved 15 May 2015.
