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Montevideo Maru (Japanese: もんてびでお丸) was a merchant ship of the Empire of Japan.Launched in 1926, it was pressed into service as a military transport during World War II.
Tonan Maru No. 3 (Japanese: 第三図南丸, Dai-san Tonanmaru), from 1951 simply the Tonan Maru, was a Japanese whale oil factory ship.Built at Osaka in 1938 she was the largest merchant ship built in Japan to that point.
Kaiwo Maru (海王丸) is a Japanese former training barque. She was built by Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation in Kobe, and was launched on 27 January 1930 alongside her sister ship Nippon Maru. [1] She was operated by the Tokyo Institute for Maritime Training to train officers for Japan's merchant marine. [1]
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 ...
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]
This is a list of the Japanese Auxiliary Cruiser Commerce Raiders in World War II.. The success of the German raiders in World War I was not lost on the Japanese. In 1941, Aikoku Maru and Hokoku Maru, two passenger-cargo vessels built for the Osaka Shipping Line’s South America route, were requisitioned for conversion to Armed Merchant Cruisers (AMC).
Arisan Maru was a 6,886 GRT Type 2A freighter constructed in 1944 during World War II and was one of Imperial Japan's hell ships.The vessel, named for a mountain on Taiwan, was initially used as a troop transport.
These ships, the best of the atakebune, were used somewhat in contrast to Japanese naval tactics of the time, which viewed naval combat as a battle between the crews of ships, rather than between the ships themselves (which contributed to the primary Japanese naval tactic of drawing near and boarding opposing ships, as the Japanese crews ...