Edogawa Maru

Edogawa Maru

History
Japan
Launched:	1944
Fate:	Torpedoed and sunk 18 November 1944
General characteristics
Type:	Troop transport
Tonnage:	6,968 tons
Length:	128 m
Beam:	18.2 m
Draught:	11.1 m
Propulsion:	steam turbine

Edogawa Maru was a 6,968 ton Japanese transport ship that was sunk by USS Sunfish on 18 November 1944 with 2,114 lives lost.

Edogawa Maru sailed as part of convoy MI-27 with seven other ships from Moji to Miri, Borneo, on 15 November 1944. Escorted by a converted minesweeper and three smaller vessels, the convoy hugged the coast of the Korean peninsula to try to avoid American submarines.^[1] Nevertheless, a group of three submarines—Peto, Spadefish, and Sunfish—found and attacked the convoy on the night of 17/18 November. At 22:00 a torpedo from Sunfish struck and crippled Edogawa Maru. In the early hours of 18 November a second torpedo from Sunfish finished off the Edogawa Maru. The ship hadn't been evacuated in the meantime and 1,998 soldiers and 116 crewmen were KIA.^[2]
Seisho Maru, Osakasan Maru and Chinaki Maru were also sunk that night.

See also

• List by death toll of ships sunk by submarines

References

1. Hackett, Bob; Peter Cundall (2007). "JN Minesweeper W-101: Tabular Record of Movement". Retrieved 2016-10-11.
2. "Edogawa Maru (+1944)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 2016-10-11.

• David L Williams (2012). In the Shadow of the Titanic: Merchant Ships Lost With Greater Fatalities The History Press