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Friday, 3 May 2024

Japanese passenger-cargo ship (ex-Canada Maru 1911-1939) Tamon No. 5 1939-1943

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Call sign JCDD. Built by Mitsubishi Dockyard&Engineering Works in April 1911 and torpedoed and sunk by the American submarine USS Wahoo (SS-238) on 7 May 1943. Gross tonnage 5,261 tons, under deck 4,881 tons, net tonnage 3,206 tons and as dimensions 400.0 x 51.0 x 32.4 x 10.1 (light)-26 (loaded) feet. Reciprocating propulsion, 2 screws, coal bunker capacity 2,400 tons, range 22,600 nautical miles/11 knots and speed 11 (normal cruising)-12.5 (maximum) knots. 

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