Giuseppe Verdi (ship, 1915)
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The Giuseppe Verdi was a 1915 passenger ship of the Italian shipping company Transatlantica Italiana , which was used for the transatlantic passenger and freight traffic between Italy and New York . In 1928 she was sold to Japan and served as a hospital ship during the Second World War under the name Yamato Maru ( Japanese 大 和 丸 ) . On September 13, 1943, the Yamato Maru was sunk in the Philippines by the US submarine USS Snook , killing 33 people.
Italian passenger ship
The 9,757 GRT large steamer was at the shipyard Società Esercizio Bacini in Riva Trigoso on Genoa built and launched on August 2, 1915 from the stack. The 147.2 meter long and 18.1 meter wide passenger and cargo ship was built for the shipping company Transatlantica Italiana Società Anonima di Navigazione (mostly just called Transatlantica Italiana ), founded in Genoa in 1897 , and for their passenger and goods traffic between Genoa and New York City used. She had an identical sister ship , the 9,754 GRT Dante Alighieri , which was completed in February 1915 at the same shipyard.
The Giuseppe Verdi had like most ocean liner of its time a black hull and white superstructure. She had two funnels and two masts and was powered by two quadruple expansion steam engines that ran on two propellers and could accelerate the ship up to 16 knots. In the passenger accommodation, 100 passengers could be carried in first, 260 in second and 1,825 in third class.
On November 4, 1915, the Giuseppe Verdi sailed from Naples on her maiden voyage via Palermo to New York. 16 days later she entered Ellis Island for the first time . The ship stayed on this route until November 1928, occasionally calling at Boston .
Under the Japanese flag
In 1928 the ship was sold to the Japanese shipping company Nippon Yūsen Kaisha (NYK) and renamed Yamato Maru . In 1937 it served temporarily as a troop transport in the Second Sino-Japanese War . In 1940 one of the two chimneys was removed (it was only an optical dummy ). From 1943 the ship was assigned to the Senpaku Un'eikai (English "Civilian Shipping Administration").
On September 11, 1943 at around 5 p.m., the Yamato Maru departed Mutsurejima, Yamaguchi Prefecture, as part of Convoy No. 195. The convoy, which included five other ships in addition to the Yamato Maru , was accompanied by the destroyer Shiokaze . The Yamato Maru carried 916 passengers, 3,340 tons of cargo and 3,000 kg of mail .
Two days later, on September 13, 1943 at 2:06 a.m., the ship was torpedoed at the position 30 ° 18 ′ N , 123 ° 35 ′ E by the American submarine USS Snook (Lt. Cdr. Charles Otto Triebel) and sunk. Four crew members and 29 passengers died. The destroyer Shiokaze threw 14 depth charges , but could not find on the American submarine achieve.