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A French passenger ship that sank near Bank of Arguin. The traumatic experience of the stranded passengers and crew was immortalized in Géricault 's painting, The Raft of the Medusa . 20°02′51″N 16°48′32″W / 20.0475°N 16.8090°W / 20.0475; -16.8090
List of shipwrecks: 3 January 1944 Ship State Description Ryuei Maru Imperial Japanese Navy World War II: The Standard Wartime Type 1TM tanker was torpedoed and sunk in the South China Sea north west of Miri, Borneo by USS Kingfish ( United States Navy). 46 crew were killed
List of shipwrecks: 3 May 1944 Ship State Description USS Donnell United States Navy World War II: Convoy CU 22: The Buckley-class destroyer escort was torpedoed and damaged in the Atlantic Ocean 450 nautical miles (830 km) south west of Cape Clear Island, County Cork, Ireland by U-473 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 29 of her 213
Marles said the SS Montevideo Maru, an unmarked prisoner of war transport vessel missing since being sunk off the Philippines' coast in July 1942, had been discovered northwest of Luzon island.
The wreck of the Meisho Maru near Cape Agulhas. Geography. Climate. L'Agulhas has a mild semi-arid climate (BSk, according to the Köppen climate classification ...
Oryoku Maru in World War II. A hell ship is a ship with extremely inhumane living conditions or with a reputation for cruelty among the crew. It now generally refers to the ships used by the Imperial Japanese Navy and Imperial Japanese Army to transport Allied prisoners of war (POWs) and rōmusha (Asian forced slave laborers) out of the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies, Hong Kong, and ...
Kōshū Maru – sunk by USS Ray on 4 August 1944. 1,239 out of 1,513 POWs, most of them Javanese labourers, died. [b] Kunishima Maru; Kurimata Maru; Kyokko Maru [16] Kyokusei Maru; Lima Maru [a] Lisbon Maru (りすぼん丸, Risubon Maru) [a] – sunk by Grouper on 2 October 1944. Of the 1,816 British POWs, 842 perished. Maebashi Maru ...
Montevideo Maru slowed to about 12 knots (22 km/h) at midnight, to facilitate an expected rendezvous with an escort of two destroyers. [5] Unaware that the ship was carrying Allied prisoners of war and civilians, Sturgeon fired four torpedoes at Montevideo Maru before dawn on 1 July 1942. At least one torpedo hit, causing the vessel to take on ...