Tatsuta Maru
 Tatsuta Maru, circa 1931 | |
| Career (Japan) | ![Civil naval ensign ([Hinmaru])](/File:Flag_of_Japan.svg){kind=small} |
|---|---|
| Name: | MS Tatsuta Maru |
| Operator: | Nippon Yusen (NYK) |
| Builder: | Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Nagasaki, Japan |
| Yard number: | 451 |
| Laid down: | 3 December 1927 |
| Launched: | 12 April 1929 |
| Completed: | 15 March 1930 |
| In service: | 1943 |
| Out of service: | 9 February 1943 |
| Renamed: | 1938, Tatuta Maru |
| Fate: | lost in war |
| Status: | torpedoed and sunk by submarine |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage: | 16,975 gross register tons (GRT) |
| Length: | 583 ft (178 m) |
| Beam: | 71 ft (22 m) |
| Propulsion: | 4 Sulzer diesels, quadruple screws |
| Speed: | 21 knots |
| Notes: | Steel construction |
The Tatsuta Maru (龍田丸 Tatsuta maru), also known as Tatuta Maru after 1938, was a Japanese ocean liner owned by Nippon Yusen Kaisha. The ship was built in 1927-1930 by Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. at Nagasaki, Japan.
The Tatsuta Maru was built for the trans-Pacific Orient-California fortnightly service.[1] Principal ports-of-call included Hong Kong, Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama, Honolulu, Los Angeles & San Francisco.[2]
The vessel was created as a twin of the Asama Maru; and both ships were named after important Shinto shrines.[3]
History
The shipyard number of the first passenger liner built by NYK was 450 (Asama Maru)[4] and 451 was the yard number of her sister ship, the Tatsuta Maru.[5]
Both vessels were built by Mitsubishi at Nagasaki on the southern island of Kyushu. The Tatsuta Maru was launched on April 12, 1929. She undertook her maiden voyage on March 15, 1930, [5] sailing from Yokohama to San Francisco.[2]
The 16,975-ton vessel had a length of 583 feet (178 m), and her beam was 71 feet (22 m). The ship had 4 diesel motors, quadruple screws and an average speed of 21-knots.[5] The Asama Maru was the second Japanese passenger liner to be propelled by diesel engines.[2]
Pacific War
In 1941, the Tatsuta Maru was requisitioned as a troopship for the Imperial Japanese Navy.[2]
On February 8, 1943, Tatsuta Maru was torpedoed and sunk by an enemy submarine[5] 42 miles east of Mikura Jima..[2]
See also
Notes
- ↑ Levine, David. Graphic Design from the 1920s and 1930s in Travel Ephemera: "Plan of Passenger Accommodation Motor Ships 'Asama Maru' & ' Tatsuta Maru,'" 1929.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Derby, Sulzer diesel motors: Asama Maru. August 29, 2008.
- ↑ Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1935). The Nomeclature of the N.Y.K. Fleet, p. 50.
- ↑ Tate, E. Mowbray. (1986). Transpacific steam: the story of steam navigation from the Pacific Coast of North America to the Far East and the Antipodes, 1867-1941, p. 68
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Haworth, R.B. Miramar Ship Index: Tatsuta Maru, ID#4035362.
References
- Ponsonby-Fane, Richard Arthur Brabazon. (1935). The Nomeclature of the N.Y.K. Fleet. Tokyo : Nippon Yusen Kaisha. OCLC 27933596
- Tate, E. Mowbray. (1986). Transpacific steam: the story of steam navigation from the Pacific Coast of North America to the Far East and the Antipodes, 1867-1941. New York: Cornwall Books. 10-ISBN 0845347926; 13-ISBN 9780845347928; OCLC 12370774
External links
- DerbySulzer: Tatsuta Maru
