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The Japanese aboard the escort minesweeper set up twenty riflemen and two machineguns and deliberately massacred the c.250 PoW survivors in the water. The massacre was the subject of a detailed war crime investigation (National Archives of Australia NAA/MP-742) and the subject of two books (Jones, A 2002, The Suez maru Atrocity) and (Frith, J ...
Class or Ship Displace-ment Main Battery Secondary Battery Torpedo Tubes Comple-ment Speed Ships in Class Ship Keel Laid Completed Fate ex-Chinese prize of First Sino-Japanese War Jiyuan: 2,300 tons 2 × 8.2-in. 1 × 5.9-in. 4 180 15 kn Saien: Jan 1883 Mar 1895 Mine, Nov 1904 Chilean corvette Esmeralda sold to Japan 2,950 tons 2 × 10-in.
Hikawa Maru was completed on 25 April 1930. Her maiden voyage was 13 May 1930 for Yokohama–Seattle. Arrived at Seattle on 27 May. She sailed 73 times until August 1941. Her service was popular, and the cuisine was well-regarded, as NYK Line employed a chef trained in Eur
In the Edo period, the Seto Inland Sea was one of the busiest transport lines in Japan. It was a part of a navigational route around Japan's islands via the Sea of Japan. Many ships navigated from its coastal areas to the area along the Sea of Japan. Major ports in the Edo period were Osaka, Sakai, Shimotsui, Ushimado, and Tomonoura.
The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) (Japanese: 大日本帝国海軍) was the navy of Japan between 1868 and until 1945, when it was dissolved following Japan's defeat and surrender in World War II. From 1868, the restored Meiji Emperor continued with reforms to industrialize and militarize Japan in order to prevent it from being overwhelmed by ...
First ever Japanese Navy diesel ship Kamishima-class: Minelayer: Kamishima Awashima: 778 Japanese survey ship Katsuriki: Minelayer: Katsuriki: 1,565 First purpose-built ocean-going minelayer of Japanese Navy, converted to survey ship in 1942 Japanese minelayer Minoo: Minelayer: Minoo: 3,276 Japanese minelayer Okinoshima: Minelayer: Okinoshima ...
The Japanese maker of a popular fruity candy secured local incentives worth $2.9 million Tuesday to help expand its operations in Mebane, adding 204 more jobs on the Orange County side of the city.
Kaiwo Maru (海王丸, Kaiō-Maru) is a Japanese four-masted training barque tall ship.She was built in 1989 to replace a 1930 ship of the same name. [3] She is 110.09 m (361.2 ft) overall, with a beam of 13.80 m (45.3 ft) and a depth of 10.70 m (35.1 ft).