Jun'yō Maru

**Jun'yō Maru**
	Jun'yō Maru 1933
Ship data
other ship names	Ardgorm (1913) ; Hartland Point (1917) ; Hartmore (1920) ; Sureway (1921)
Shipyard	Robert Duncan and Company , Glasgow
Launch	December 1913
Whereabouts	Sank on September 18, 1944 after being hit by a torpedo.
Ship dimensions and crew
length	134.39 m ( Lüa )
width	16.08 m
Draft	Max. 9.07 m
measurement	5,065 GRT
crew	41
Machine system
Machine ; performance	1,634 hp (1,202 kW)

Jun'yō Maru ( Japanese 順陽丸 ) was a Japanese freighter . Its sinking in the Second World War is associated with a particularly high loss of life. About 5,620 people were killed.

history

The ship was built in 1913 by the Robert Duncan & Company shipyard in Glasgow under hull number 324. It was measured at 5,065 GRT , 134 m long and 16 m wide. Its machines had an output of 1,202 kW. It had four British owners with respective name changes and from 1926 three Japanese owners under the name Jun'yō Maru. In the Second World War, the freighter was finally used as a ship of hell .

On September 16, 1944, the freighter left Batavia , Java . He was supposed to bring 6,342 prisoners to Padang on the west coast of Sumatra . Among them were about 2,300 Allied prisoners of war (about 1,700 western, including 1,377 Dutch, 64 British and Australian, 8 Americans, and about 500 Indonesians) and 4,200 civil slave labor from Java . They were intended for the construction of the 220 km long Sumatra railway line . Two ships accompanied the freighter for protection.

The Tradewind , a British Taciturn- class submarine , commanded by Lt. Cmdr. Stephen Lynch Conway Maydon, found the bandage. At around 4:00 p.m. on September 18, 1944, Maydon attacked the freighter from a distance of 1,800 yd (1,646 m) with a volley of four torpedoes, without knowing its cargo, since the Japanese Navy did not usually mark their transports of prisoners.

Only the crew and a small number of the prisoners were able to save themselves. The place of the sinking is at Mukomuko, Sumatra (position 2 ° 52 ′ 59.6 ″ S , 101 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ E ). About 5,620 people were killed when the ship went down. The Japanese recovered the survivors at dawn the next day. Of the 680 prisoners of war rescued, only 96 survived the subsequent forced labor. -2.88322 101.183333

literature

Ed Melis, WF van Wamel: Eresaluut boven massagraf - Junyo Maru de vergeten scheepsramp.
Robert Barr Smith: Juno Mayru: Torpedoed By British Submarine HMS Tradewind. In: World War II, March 2002 ( online )

Footnotes

↑ ^a ^b ss ARDGORM built by Robert Duncan & Co Port Glasgow. In: Clydebuilt Ships Database. Retrieved September 20, 2012 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c 昭和十八年度版日本汽船名簿内地朝鮮台湾関東州其一 ("Year Shōwa 18 (1943) Japanese steamship register: Inland, Korea, Taiwan, Kwantung: Volume 1"), p. 42, online in the National Archives of Japan JACAR database , search key: C08050083800
↑ http://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?year_built=&builder=&ref=5841&vessel=ARDGORM
↑ In some cases (e.g. Clydebuilt Ships Database ) Zyunyo Maru is given as a name in addition to Junyo Maru, but this is not a name change, just a different transcription of the Japanese name.

[clydebuilt-1] ss ARDGORM built by Robert Duncan & Co Port Glasgow. In: Clydebuilt Ships Database. Retrieved September 20, 2012 .

[register-2] 昭和十八年度版日本汽船名簿内地朝鮮台湾関東州其一 ("Year Shōwa 18 (1943) Japanese steamship register: Inland, Korea, Taiwan, Kwantung: Volume 1"), p. 42, online in the National Archives of Japan JACAR database , search key: C08050083800

[3] ttp://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?year_built=&builder=&ref=5841&vessel=ARDGORM

[4] In some cases (e.g. Clydebuilt Ships Database ) Zyunyo Maru is given as a name in addition to Junyo Maru, but this is not a name change, just a different transcription of the Japanese name.