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Merchant ships of Japan include all merchant ships designed, built, or operated by Japan. Subcategories. This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 ...
Yoshida Maru No 1-class cargo ships (4 P) Pages in category "World War II merchant ships of Japan" The following 53 pages are in this category, out of 53 total.
Red seal ships (朱印船, Shuinsen) were Japanese armed merchant sailing ships bound for Southeast Asian ports with red-sealed letters patent issued by the early Tokugawa shogunate in the first half of the 17th century. [2] Between 1600 and 1635, more than 350 Japanese ships went overseas under this permit system. [3]
Japanese ship names follow different conventions from those typical in the West. Merchant ship names often contain the word maru at the end (meaning circle), while warships are never named after people, but rather after objects such as mountains, islands, weather phenomena, or animals.
This list also includes ships before the official founding of the Navy and some auxiliary ships used by the Army. For a list of ships of its successor, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, see List of active Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ships and List of combatant ship classes of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.
SS Fingal: Norwegian merchant ship on charter to the Australian Government on 5 May 1943 torpedoed by the Japanese submarine I-180; HMAS Kuttabul: Australian depot ship sunk 31 May 1942 by a Japanese midget submarine during the attack on Sydney Harbour; HMAS Mavie: Australian patrol boat sunk 19 February 1942 by aircraft in Darwin Harbour.
World War II merchant ships of Japan (1 C, 53 P) World War II merchant ships of Jersey (1 P) N. ... World War II merchant ships of the United Kingdom (4 C, 223 P)
The ships were not in good condition requiring maintenance and repair using Japan's remaining facilities. Scarce parts were obtained from salvage of inoperable Japanese ships and personnel were available from demobilized naval and merchant mariners. Japanese resources could begin work transporting personnel requiring mainly fuel from Allied stocks.