Japanese passenger ship Asama Maru 1927-1944

Of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha Line on the shipping line Yokohama, Japan-San Francisco, USA. Laid down by Mitsubishi Shipyard, Nagasaki, Japan with yard number 450 on 10 September 1927, launched on 30 October 1928 and completed on 15 September 1929. Stranded during a hurricane on 2 September 1937 at Hong Kong, repaired with shortened funnels which were black painted now showing white-red-white-red-white stripes. Requisitioned by the Imperial Japanese Navy on 30 November 1941 became she a (troop) transport and torpedoed and sunk by the American submarine Atule (SS-403) in the South China Sea on 1 November 1944.(1) Gross register tonnage 16.975 ton and as dimensions 178 x 21,9 x 13 metres or 584 x 72 x 43 feet.

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1. Balao-class. Laid down by Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine, USA on 2 December 1943, launched on 6 March 1944, commissioned 21 June 1944, finally decommissioned on 6 April 1970, purchased by Peru on 31 July 1974, renamed BAP Pacocha (SS-48) and sunk after a collision on 26 August 1988.