Tango Maru
German-built cargo motor ship that was sunk in WW2 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tango Maru (丹後丸) was a cargo motor ship that was built in Germany in 1926 and sunk off the coast of Bali in 1944. She was launched as Rendsburg for the Deutsch-Australische Dampfschiffs-Gesellschaft (DADG), which in 1926 merged with Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG).
Rendsburg in 1927, in the DADG colours adopted by HAPAG | |
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Namesake | 1926: Rendsburg |
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Builder | Vulcan-Werke, Hamburg |
Yard number | 639 |
Launched | 1 September 1925 |
Completed | 2 February 1926 |
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Type | cargo ship |
Tonnage | 6,200 GRT, 3,716 NRT, 9,440 DWT |
Length | 450.3 ft (137.3 m) |
Beam | 58.2 ft (17.7 m) |
Depth | 24.6 ft (7.5 m) |
Decks | 2 |
Installed power | 993 NHP, 4,100 bhp |
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Speed | 13 knots (24 km/h) |
Crew | 47 |
Sensors and processing systems | by 1933: wireless direction finding |
Notes | sister ships: Duisburg, Magdeburg |
When Germany invaded the Netherlands in May 1940, the Dutch authorities seized Rendsburg in the Dutch East Indies and renamed her Toendjoek. In March 1942, during the Japanese invasion of the Dutch East Indies, the Dutch scuttled her as a blockship.
In August 1942 the Japanese re-floated her and renamed her Tango Maru. In 1944 she was serving as a hell ship when the submarine USS Rasher torpedoed her, sinking her with the loss of about 3,000 lives.
Other Japanese ships in the Second World War were also called Tango Maru. One was the British-built, Dutch-owned 2,046 GRT tanker Talang Akar, which was sunk in the Makassar Strait in November 1943, ironically also by Rasher.[1] Another was a Japanese-built 6,893 GRT steamship operated by Nippon Yusen KK,[2] which was sunk in the East China Sea by US aircraft only five days later.[3]