Nagata Maru
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| Name: | MS Nagata Maru |
| Operator: | Nippon Yusen Kaisha, Tokyo |
| In service: | 1937 |
| Fate: | lost in war |
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| Tonnage: | 2,969 |
| Notes: | Steel construction |
The Nagata Maru (長田丸 Nagata maru?) was a Japanese ocean liner owned by Nippon Yusen Kaisha, Tokyo. The ship was entered into service in 1937.
The name Nagata Maru derives from Nagata jinja, a Shinto shrine in Nagata Ward, Kobe, Japan.
Nagata maru was the name of a of several Japanese vessls. In 1900, Fujinagata Shipyards completed its first all-metal construction merchant vessel; the No.2 Nagata Maru.
In 1939, Nagata Maru was commandeered by the Imperial Japanese Navy for use as a troopship.
In transporting Allied prisoners, it was amongst those vessels which earned the epithet "hell ships."
In 1944, Nagata Maru was part of a Singapore-to-Saigon convoy anchored off Cape St. Jacques in French Indochina. The ship was bombed and sunk.
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