Nagata Maru

Career (Japan)
Name:	MS Nagata Maru
Operator:	Nippon Yusen Kaisha, Tokyo
In service:	1937
Fate:	lost in war
General characteristics
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 went into service in 1937.

The name Nagata Maru derives from Nagata jinja, a Shinto shrine in Nagata Ward, Kobe, Japan.^[1]

History

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.

List of ships named Nagata Maru

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• Nagata Maru No. 1
• Nagata Maru No. 2
• Nagata Maru No. 3
• Nagata Maru No. 4
• Nagata Maru No. 5
• Nagata Maru No. 6
• Nagata Maru No. 7
• Nagata Maru No. 8^[2]
• Nagata Maru No. 9
• Nagata Maru No. 10
• Nagata Maru No. 11
• Nagata Maru No. 12
• Nagata Maru No. 13^[2]

• Nagata Maru (1937)

Pacific War

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 bombed and sunk.

See also

• List of ocean liners

Notes

1. ^ Richard, Ponsonby-Fane. (1964) Visiting Famous Shrines in Japan, pp. 324-328; from 1871 through 1946, the Nagata Shrine stood in the second tier of government supported shrines which were especially venerated by the imperial family.
2. ^ ^{a b} Lloyd's. (1907). Lloyd's Register of Shipping, Vol. 2, p. 369. at Google Books

References

• Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1964). Visiting Famous Shrines in Japan. Kyoto: Ponsonby-Fane Memorial Society. OCLC 1030156

External links

• Ship's List: Ships of Nippon Yusen Kaisha K.K