SS Yawata Maru

SS Yawata Maru

The SS "Yawata Maru" was an 18,000 ton ocean liner on the trans-Pacific run, sailing from Tokyo to Seattle and down to San Francisco. Her sister ships were the "SS Nitta Maru" and the "SS Kasuga Maru". The "Yawata Maru" was the only one of the trio that saw passenger service.

Built at Nagasaki in 1939, she was intended to sail to Europe but was needed more in the Pacific. After two years of service, she was handed over to the Imperial Japanese Navy and carried prisoners of war. One year later she was turned into an aircraft carrier and renamed "Unyo". "Unyo" was sunk by the submarine USS "Barb" on September 17 1944.

References

[http://www.combinedfleet.com/cvlist.htm Kido Butai! Stories and Battle Histories of the IJN's Carrier Fleet] by Anthony Tully, retrieved September 11 2007.


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