Torpedoed and sunk by USS Trigger, 31 January 1944
Stricken
10 March 1944
General characteristics
Class and type
Terukuni Maru class ocean liner
Tonnage
11,933 gross register tons (GRT)
Length
153.92 m (505.0 ft)pp
Beam
19.51 m (64.0 ft)
Draught
11.28 m (37.0 ft)
Propulsion
2 Mitsubishi-Sulzer diesel engines, 14,368 hp (10,714 kW)
Speed
18 knots (21 mph; 33 km/h)
Capacity
249 (121 first class, 68 second class, 60 third class)
Crew
177
Notes
Steel construction
Yasukuni Maru (靖国丸) was a Japanese ocean liner owned by Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK). The ship was launched in 1930 by Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. at Nagasaki, on the southern island of Kyūshū, Japan, entering service in 1930. The ship was named for the Yasukuni Shrine, a famous Shinto shrine dedicated to the war dead of Japan, located in Tokyo.[1]
^Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1935). The Nomenclature of the N.Y.K. Fleet, p. 50.
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