Japanese netlayer Kanko Maru
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Name | Kanko Maru ( |
Builder | Nakata Shipyard |
Laid down | 1940 |
Launched | 26 December 1940 |
Sponsored by | Sanko Kisen Co., Ltd. |
Completed | 1 May 1941 |
Acquired | Requisitioned by Imperial Japanese Navy, 4 December 1941 |
Commissioned | 20 December 1941 |
Homeport | Amagasaki[1] |
Identification | 47973[1] |
Fate | Torpedoed and sunk by USS Cavalla, 5 January 1945 |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Steamer |
Tonnage | 909 GRT[1][2][3] |
Length | 56.9 m (186 ft 8 in) o/a[1] |
Beam | 9.4 m (30 ft 10 in)[1] |
Draught | 5.1 m (16 ft 9 in)[1] |
Propulsion | 1 diesel engine, single shaft, 1 screw[2] |
Armament | 1 x 8 cm/40 3rd Year Type naval gun 1 x Type 93 13 mm AT/AA machine gun 1 x Lewis gun 24 depth charges 4 x Type 14 capture nets 1 x hanging hydrophone |
Kanko Maru (Japanese:
History[edit]
She was launched on 26 December 1940 at the Nakata Shipyard (
On 5 January 1945, the US submarine Cavalla torpedoed and sank Kanko Maru and her fellow auxiliary net layer Shunsen Maru in the Java Sea 44 nautical miles north north west of Bawean Island, Netherlands East Indies[5] at coordinates 05°00′S 112°20′E / 5.000°S 112.333°E.[4][6]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g h Toda, Gengoro S. (21 September 2019). "
特設 特務 艇 (Auxiliary Net Layer - Stats)" (PDF). Imperial Japanese Navy - Tokusetsukansen (in Japanese). - ^ a b Lettens, Jan (15 November 2014). "Kanko Maru [+1945]". wrecksite.eu.
- ^ ONI 208-J (Supplement no. 2) Far Eastern Small Craft. Division of Naval Intelligence. March 1945. p. 5.
- ^ a b c d e f Toda, Gengoro S. "
漢江 丸 の船 歴 (Kanko Maru - Ship History)". Imperial Japanese Navy -Tokusetsu Kansen (in Japanese). - ^ "Japanese Auxiliary Netlayers". Combinedfleet.com. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
- ^ Cressman, Robert (2000). The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II. 2016. p. 604. ISBN 9781557501493.