SS Shinyō Maru
Second World War Japanese hell ship / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Shin'yō Maru was a cargo steamship that was built in 1894, had a fifty-year career under successive British, Australian, Chinese and Greek owners, was captured by Japan in the Second World War, and sunk by a United States Navy submarine in 1944.
Seychelles postage stamp of the ship as Clan Mackay | |
History | |
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Owner |
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Port of registry | |
Builder | Naval Construction & Armament Co, Barrow-in-Furness |
Cost | £28,500 |
Yard number | 229 |
Launched | 31 October 1894 |
Completed | December 1894 |
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Captured | by Japanese forces, 1941 |
Fate | Torpedoed and sunk by USS Paddle, 1944 |
General characteristics | |
Type | cargo ship |
Tonnage | |
Length | 312.0 ft (95.1 m) |
Beam | 40.2 ft (12.3 m) |
Draught | 1 ft 0 in (0.3 m) |
Depth | 24.7 ft (7.5 m) |
Decks | 2 |
Installed power | 317 NHP |
Propulsion | triple-expansion engine |
Speed | 13+1⁄2 knots (25.0 km/h) |
Crew | as hell ship: 52 crew and guards |
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She was built in England for Clan Line as Clan Mackay. She was the second of five Clan Line ships to be named after that clan. In 1913 the Adelaide Steamship Company bought her and renamed her Ceduna. In 1924 Tung Tuck & Co acquired her and renamed her Tung-Tuck. In 1937 Lee Yuen Steamship Co acquired her and renamed her Chang Teh, then passed her on to China Hellenic Lines who renamed her Pananis.
Japanese forces captured Pananis in 1941, and renamed her Shin'yō Maru in 1943. In 1944 she was being used as a Hell ship when the submarine USS Paddle torpedoed her. 668 American and Allied prisoners of war (PoWs) were killed either by the torpedo explosions, or by Japanese guards who machine-gunned the PoWs.