History | |
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Name |
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Owner | Kishimoto Kisen K.K. |
Builder | Fujimagata Dockyard, Osaka |
Launched | 1921 |
Completed | March 1921 |
Fate | Sunk by aircraft on 3 March 1943 at 07°15'S, 148°30'E |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage | |
Length | 345 feet (105 m) |
Beam | 50 feet (15 m) |
Draught | 29 feet (8.8 m) |
Installed power | 342 NHP |
Propulsion | Triple expansion engines |
Sin-ai Maru, also known as Shin-ai Maru was a 3,794 ton transport ship of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.
Built by Fujimagata Dockyard, Osaka and launched in 1921 as Shin-ai Maru. [1] She was renamed Sin-ai Maru in 1938.
She left
Rabaul, New Britain on 1 March 1943, as part of Operation 81, carrying a cargo of troops, equipment, fuel, landing craft and ammunition for
Lae, New Guinea.
[2] The convoy was attacked by aircraft of the
United States Army Air Forces and
Royal Australian Air Force from 2 March 1943, known as the
Battle of the Bismarck Sea. Sin-ai Maru was bombed on 3 March and sank at 07°15'S., 148°30'E.
18 crew, 45 gunners and an unknown number of troops were KIA.
[3]
History | |
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![]() | |
Name |
|
Owner | Kishimoto Kisen K.K. |
Builder | Fujimagata Dockyard, Osaka |
Launched | 1921 |
Completed | March 1921 |
Fate | Sunk by aircraft on 3 March 1943 at 07°15'S, 148°30'E |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage | |
Length | 345 feet (105 m) |
Beam | 50 feet (15 m) |
Draught | 29 feet (8.8 m) |
Installed power | 342 NHP |
Propulsion | Triple expansion engines |
Sin-ai Maru, also known as Shin-ai Maru was a 3,794 ton transport ship of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.
Built by Fujimagata Dockyard, Osaka and launched in 1921 as Shin-ai Maru. [1] She was renamed Sin-ai Maru in 1938.
She left
Rabaul, New Britain on 1 March 1943, as part of Operation 81, carrying a cargo of troops, equipment, fuel, landing craft and ammunition for
Lae, New Guinea.
[2] The convoy was attacked by aircraft of the
United States Army Air Forces and
Royal Australian Air Force from 2 March 1943, known as the
Battle of the Bismarck Sea. Sin-ai Maru was bombed on 3 March and sank at 07°15'S., 148°30'E.
18 crew, 45 gunners and an unknown number of troops were KIA.
[3]