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==Remarks== | ==Remarks== | ||
| − | One of more than 200 ships on a list of Japanese Hell Ships - those that transported Allied prisoners of war during the Pacific War. The ''Fukkai Maru'' made at least one journey with POWs captured in Malaya and Singapore to Korea in 1942. | + | One of more than 200 ships on a list of Japanese Hell Ships - those that transported Allied prisoners of war during the Pacific War. The ''Fukkai Maru'' made at least one journey with POWs captured in Malaya and Singapore to Korea in 1942. On 12 Aug 1942 1,100 POWs were loaded on her and she sailed in convoy with ''SS England Maru''. The convoy travelled via Saigon (14 Aug 1942) before arriving at Takao, Formosa (Taiwan) on 29 Aug 1942. While the POWs on ''England Maru'' were transferred to POW camps, the mn aboard ''Fukkai Maru'' were forced to work as stevedores unloading bauxite from other ships untilt hey reboarded ''Fukkai Maru'' which departed Takao for Korea on 8 Sep 1942. On 22 Sep 1942 she arrived at Pusan, Korea |
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==Soldiers carried== | ==Soldiers carried== | ||
| − | ===Singapore to Korea | + | ===Singapore to Korea 12 August - 22 September 1942=== |
| − | *[[Charles William (Tiny) Gray]] | + | * [[Charles William (Tiny) Gray]] |
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Revision as of 18:33, 27 November 2021
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| Name | SS Fukkai Maru |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Japanese Tramp Steamer |
| Tonnage | 3,829 tons |
Remarks
One of more than 200 ships on a list of Japanese Hell Ships - those that transported Allied prisoners of war during the Pacific War. The Fukkai Maru made at least one journey with POWs captured in Malaya and Singapore to Korea in 1942. On 12 Aug 1942 1,100 POWs were loaded on her and she sailed in convoy with SS England Maru. The convoy travelled via Saigon (14 Aug 1942) before arriving at Takao, Formosa (Taiwan) on 29 Aug 1942. While the POWs on England Maru were transferred to POW camps, the mn aboard Fukkai Maru were forced to work as stevedores unloading bauxite from other ships untilt hey reboarded Fukkai Maru which departed Takao for Korea on 8 Sep 1942. On 22 Sep 1942 she arrived at Pusan, Korea
On Monday 13 Dec 1943 the Fukkai Maru was torpedoed off Palau by the US Submarine Pogy (SS 266). In turn the submarine was damaged by depth charges and had to break off the attack. Palau is an archipelago of more than 500 islands east of the Philippine island of Mindanao, and north of West Papua. The Fukkai Maru had earlier been identified as leaving Tako on Formosa as part of an escorted convoy on 2 Jul 1943.