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Revision as of 03:13, 28 March 2019

SS Fukkai Maru.jpg
Photo was taken immediately before POAWs were unloaded at Pusan on 24 Oct 1942.
History
Name SS Fukkai Maru
Type Japanese Tramp Steamer
Displacement 3,829 tons


Remarks

One of more than 200 ships on a list of Japanese Hell Ships - those that transported allied prisoners of war during the Pacific War. Them Fukkai Maru made at least one journey with POWs captured in Malaya and Singapore to Korea in 1942.

On Monday 13 Dec 1943 the Fukkai Maru was torpedoed off Palau by the US Submarine Pogy (SS266). In turn the submarine was damaged by depth charges and had to break off the attack. Palau is an archipelago of more than 500 islands east of the Philippine island of Mindanao, and north of West Papua. She had earlier been identified as leaving Tako on Formosa as part of an escorted convoy on 2 Jul 1943.


Soldiers carried

Singapore to Korea 20 August - 21 September 1942