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Thursday, 24 December 2020

Japanese passenger annex cargo screw steamship Amagi Maru 1924-1944

Official number 30026 and call sign JDHA. Gross tonnage tons, under deck tons, net tonnage tons and as dimensions 315.5 x 46.0 x 27.0 feet. Built by Yokohama Dock Co., Yokohama, Japan for Nippon Yusen K.K., Tokyo, Japan in 1924 and sunk as an army cargo ship underway from Singapore towards Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands with 600 military embarked 40 miles south of her destination by the British submarine HMS Tantalus on 2 May 1944.

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