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Oigawa Maru (大井川丸) was a 6,494 GRT transport ship of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.
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Name | Oigawa Maru |
Owner | Toyo Kaiun K.K. |
Builder | Kawaminami Kogyo K.K., Nagasaki |
Laid down | c. 1940[1] |
Launched | 30 January 1941 |
Completed | 8 May 1941 |
In service | 1941 |
Fate | Requisitioned by the Imperial Japanese Army as an auxiliary transport ship, 23 September 1941 |
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Name | Oigawa Maru |
Operator | Imperial Japanese Army |
Acquired | 23 September 1941 |
In service | 1941-1943 |
Identification | No. 408[1] |
Fate | Sunk by PT boats off Finschhafen, 3 March 1943 |
General characteristics [1][2] | |
Tonnage | |
Length | 445 ft 10 in (135.89 m) |
Beam | 58 ft 5 in (17.81 m) |
Height | 32 ft 2 in (9.80 m) |
Propulsion | 3500 shp gas turbine engine |
Speed | 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph) max |
Armament | Anti-aircraft guns |
On 10 December 1941, while unloading troops at Pandan, Philippines, she was bombed and damaged and beached to prevent sinking.
She left Rabaul, New Britain on 1 March 1943, as part of Operation 81, carrying a cargo of troops, equipment, fuel, landing craft and ammunition for Lae, New Guinea.[3] The convoy was attacked by aircraft of the United States Army Air Forces and Royal Australian Air Force from 2 March 1943, known as the Battle of the Bismarck Sea. Oigawa Maru was bombed and damaged on 3 March, and was later sunk by motor torpedo boats PT-143 and PT-150 and sank at (06°58′S 148°16′E)
There were 78 crewmen and 1,151 troops of the 51st Division who were killed in action.[4]
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