SS Kiche Maru

The "Kiche Maru" was a Japanese steamshipcite book|author=Hendrickson, Robert A.|title=The Ocean Almanac|publisher=Hutchinson Reference|location=London|year=1992|pages=278|isbn=0-09-177355-5|url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=z5sTAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Kiche+Maru%22%7C%22Kieko+Maru%22%7C%22Kioko+maru%22%7C%22Kickermaru%22&dq=%22Kiche+Maru%22%7C%22Kieko+Maru%22%7C%22Kioko+maru%22%7C%22Kickermaru%22&lr=&ei=NA_4R7zzPILgywTepo3QDA&pgis=1| quote = 1912 - Kiche Maru. Over 1,000 were lost on September 28, when this Japanese steamship sank off the Japanese coast in a storm] that sank during a typhoon on September 22 1912. Although more than 1,000 persons died, the disaster was overshadowed by the earlier loss (on April 15 1912) of the RMS Titanic, and by the fact that it was part of the casualties of a tropical storm in Southern Japan. cite book|author=McKenna, Robert W.|title=The Dictionary of Nautical Literacy|publisher=International Marine Publishing|location=Camden, Me|year=2003|pages=193|isbn=0-07-141950-0|url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=R8bmQL-ijCMC|accessdate=2008-05-26|quote=Kiche Maru, Japanese Steamship that sank off the coast of Japan in a storm on September 28, 1912, with the loss of more than a thousand lives. News of the tragedy was overshadowed by the loss of the RMS Titanic months before] Although the sinking of a ship was reported (as the "Kieko Maru,"cite news|title=RUIN IN WAKE OF TYPHOON.; Twenty Millions' Loss in Property in Japan -- Many Killed|work=The New York Times|pages=4|publisher=The New York Times|date=1912-09-27|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A0DE5DF133CE633A25754C2A96F9C946396D6CF|accessdate=2008-05-26|quote=The Kieko Maru foundered of Enshu and the whole of her crew and passengers were lost. At Osaka 20,000 houses were ruined and all the breakwaters and the harbor piers were washed away. At Nara the thousand-year-old Kasuga Shrine collapsed into ruins] the "Kioko maru"Fact|date=May 2008 and the "Kickermaru"cite book|last=Hoffman|first=Mark S.|title=The World Almanac and Book of Facts|publisher=Newspaper Enterprise Association|date=1923|pages=167|url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=RWoZAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=2008-05-26|quote=1912 Sept. 28. Japanese steamer Kickermaru sunk off coast of Japan: 1,000] [cite book|title=Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute |publisher=United States Naval Institute|pages=1239|url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=4AsKAAAAIAAJ] in later accounts), it was in conjunction with a violent storm that sank hundreds of vessels. The destroyers "Fubuki" and "Tachibana" were sunk in Ise Baycite news|title=HURRICANE SWEEPS JAPAN :Two Destroyers and a Torpedo Boat Sunk -- Many Lives Lost|work=The New York Times|pages=4|publisher=The New York Times|date=1912-09-26|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E01EFD6123CE633A25755C2A96F9C946396D6CF|accessdate=2008-05-26|quote=A hurricane sept over Japan on the night of Sept. 22. There was much loss of life and heavy damage to property and shipping. All communications are badly interrupted. A torpedo boat and the destroyers Tachibana and Fubuki were sunk in Ise Bay] , and the cities of Osaka and Nagoya sustained heavy damage. The "Kiche Maru" [cite book|author=Corey, Melinda; Ochoa, George|title=Facts about the 20th century|publisher=H.W. Wilson Co|location=New York, N.Y|year=2001|pages=|isbn=0-8242-0960-5|oclc=|doi=|url= http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1nAYAAAAIAAJ&pgis=1] , a passenger ship, foundered off the island of Honshu, and there were no survivors.cite news|title=Hundreds of People Perish in Typhoon|work=The Daily Northwestern|location=Oshkosh, Wisconsin|pages=1|date=1912-09-26]

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