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List Of Ships Sunk By Submarines By Death Toll
While submarines were invented centuries ago, development of self-propelled torpedoes in the latter half of the 19th century dramatically increased the effectiveness of military submarines. Initial submarine scouting patrols against surface warships sank several cruisers in the first month of World War I. Incidental submarine encounters with merchant ships were handled by signalling ships to stop, then sinking them after evacuation of the crew, in accordance with international law. After unrestricted submarine warfare began in February 1915, any ship could unexpectedly sink rapidly from the heavy underwater hull damage inflicted by torpedoes. Many large ships sank without their crews being able to alert friendly forces in time, and the submarines which sank them were too small to rescue more than a few survivors. Heavy personnel casualties continued through World War II, and there have been a few later sinkings. List of ships sunk by submarines by death tolls exceeding 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bundesarchiv Bild 183-H27992, Lazarettschiff "Wilhelm Gustloff" In Danzig
The German Federal Archives or Bundesarchiv (BArch) (german: Bundesarchiv) are the National Archives of Germany. They were established at the current location in Koblenz in 1952. They are subordinated to the Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media ( Claudia Roth since 2021) under the German Chancellery, and before 1998, to the Federal Ministry of the Interior. On 6 December 2008, the Archives donated 100,000 photos to the public, by making them accessible via Wikimedia Commons. History The federal archive for institutions and authorities in Germany, the first precursor to the present-day Federal Archives, was established in Potsdam, Brandenburg in 1919, a later date than in other European countries. This national archive documented German government dating from the founding of the North German Confederation in 1867. It also included material from the older German Confederation and the Imperial Chamber Court. The oldest documents in this collection dated back to the year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ocean Liner
An ocean liner is a passenger ship primarily used as a form of transportation across seas or oceans. Ocean liners may also carry cargo or mail, and may sometimes be used for other purposes (such as for pleasure cruises or as hospital ships). Cargo vessels running to a schedule are sometimes called ''liners''. The category does not include ferries or other vessels engaged in short-sea trading, nor dedicated cruise ships where the voyage itself, and not transportation, is the primary purpose of the trip. Nor does it include tramp steamers, even those equipped to handle limited numbers of passengers. Some shipping companies refer to themselves as "lines" and their container ships, which often operate over set routes according to established schedules, as "liners". Ocean liners are usually strongly built with a high freeboard to withstand rough seas and adverse conditions encountered in the open ocean. Additionally, they are often designed with thicker hull plating than is found on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Cape Burnas
The Battle of Cape Burnas was a naval engagement between the Soviet and Romanian navies near the Burnas Lagoon in October 1942. On 1 October 1942, the Soviet M-class submarine The M-class submarines, also ''Malyutka'' class (russian: Малютка; ''baby'' or ''little one''), were a class of small, single-, or 1½-hulled submarines built in the Soviet Union and used during World War II. The submarines were built in ... ''M-118'' attacked and sank the German transport ship ''Salzburg'', which was carrying on board 2,000 Soviet prisoners of war. After attacking, the submarine was located by a German BV 138C flying boat, and the Romanian gunboats '' Sublocotenent Ghiculescu'' and ''Stihi Eugen'' were sent to the scene. The two Romanian warships attacked the Soviet submarine with depth-charges, sinking her with all hands. Alternative versions Recent surveys in the area failed to find the wreck in the alleged sinking location and it has been raised the alternative version t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ural Maru
was a 6,377-ton Japanese merchant vessel, used as a transport ship and hospital ship during World War II. She was torpedoed and sunk with the loss of some 3,700 lives on 27 September 1944. History ''Ural Maru'' was a combined cargo/passenger vessel owned and operated by Osaka Shosen (the predecessor to Mitsui OSK Lines). She was completed in 1929 by the Mitsubishi Nagasaki Shipyards and was in regularly scheduled service between Kobe and Osaka in Japan and the port of Dairen in the Kwantung Leased Territory on the Asian mainland. ''Ural Maru'' made her first voyage on 12 April 1929. Her civilian career was relatively uneventful, although she was damaged in Osaka by a typhoon in 1934 In 1937, after the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War, ''Ural Maru'' was requisitioned by the Imperial Japanese Army and converted into a hospital ship from 13 October 1937 to February 1938, returning sick and wounded soldiers from the front back to Japan. ''Ural Maru'' was briefly returned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chichibu Maru
The was a Japanese passenger ship which, renamed ''Kamakura Maru'', was sunk during World War II, killing 2,035 soldiers and civilians on board. The ''Chichibu Maru'' was built for the Nippon Yusen shipping company by the Yokohama Dock Company. She was launched on 8 May 1929 and completed in 1930. She had a beam of 22.6 meters, a length of 178 meters and a tonnage of 17,498. Cruising speed was 19 knots, with a maximum of 21 knots. The ship could carry 817 passengers. She differed from her half-sisters, the ''Asama Maru'' and the ''Tatsuta Maru'', in her propulsion system, and in having one (rather than two) funnels. Before the war, the ship carried passengers between Yokohama and San Francisco. Prince Takamatsu and Princess Takamatsu also traveled on this ship. Following the adoption of Kunrei-shiki romanization the ship was renamed ''Kamakura Maru'' in 1939. Requisition in World War II In 1942 she was requisitioned by the Imperial Japanese Navy to serve as a troop transport s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Dainichi Maru (Mitsui Bussan, 1922)
SS ''Dainichi Maru'' was a Japanese troop- and Hell ship that was torpedoed by the United States Navy submarine USS Gurnard in the South China Sea west of Luzon, Philippines in the Luzon Strait at (), while she was travelling in Convoy 772 from Takaoka, Japan, to Manila, Philippines. Construction ''Dainichi Maru'' was laid down on 14 August 1920 at the Mitsui Senpaku K. K. shipyard in Tokyo, Japan. She was launched on 21 July 1921 and was completed on 15 May 1922. She was built for the Mitsui Line and was named ''Ibukisan Maru''. She was renamed ''Dainichi Maru'' when she was bought by the Japanese company Itaya OSK Lines on 6 June 1935. ''Dainichi Maru'' was long, with a beam of and a depth of . The ship was assessed at . She had a single triple expansion steam engine rated at 488 nominal horsepower and driving one screw. She had one funnel and two masts. World War II career On 15 September 1941, the Imperial Japanese Army charted ''Dainichi Maru'' for use a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edogawa Maru
''Edogawa Maru'' (Kanji:) was a 6,968-ton Japanese Type 2A Wartime Standard cargo ship that was sunk by on 18 November 1944 with 2,114 lives lost. ''Edogawa Maru'' sailed as part of convoy MI-27 with seven other ships from Moji to Miri, Borneo, on 15 November 1944. Escorted by a converted minesweeper () and three smaller escorts (Type D escort ship ''CD-134'' and two s, and ''CHa-157''), the convoy hugged the coast of the Korean peninsula to try to avoid American submarines. Nevertheless, a group of three submarines—, , and —found and attacked the convoy on the night of 17/18 November. At 22:00 a torpedo from ''Sunfish'' struck and crippled ''Edogawa Maru''. In the early hours of 18 November a second torpedo from ''Sunfish'' finished off ''Edogawa Maru''. The ship had not been evacuated in the meantime and 1,998 soldiers and 116 crewmen died when the ship sunk. The ships , ''Osakasan Maru'', and ''Chinaki Maru'' were also sunk that night. See also * List by death toll o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hawaii Maru
''Hawaii Maru'' was a 9,482-ton Japanese troop transport during World War II, which sank on 2 December 1944 with great loss of life. The ship was built in 1915 by the Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation in Kobe for the Osaka Shosen Kaisha shipping company. It served as an ocean liner and sailed to Vancouver, Seattle, New Orleans, Cape Town, and Buenos Aires. On 29 September 1941, ''Hawaii Maru'' was requisitioned by the Japanese Imperial Army as a troop transport-ship and was used as such during the invasion of the Philippines. In April 1943 the ship transported some 1,000 Dutch prisoners from Singapore to Moji Port. Several Dutch soldiers died during the three-week journey. On 26 November 1943 ''Hawaii Maru'' again transported 1,230 Dutch and 150 British POWs from Singapore to Moji, and survived an attack of B-25 Mitchell bombers, which sank ''Hakone Maru''. On 27 April 1944, ''Hawaii Maru'' was hit by a torpedo fired by the American submarine , but stayed afloat. On 30 Novemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aircraft Carrier
An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft. Typically, it is the capital ship of a fleet, as it allows a naval force to project air power worldwide without depending on local bases for staging aircraft operations. Carriers have evolved since their inception in the early twentieth century from wooden vessels used to deploy balloons to nuclear-powered warships that carry numerous fighters, strike aircraft, helicopters, and other types of aircraft. While heavier aircraft such as fixed-wing gunships and bombers have been launched from aircraft carriers, these aircraft have not successfully landed on a carrier. By its diplomatic and tactical power, its mobility, its autonomy and the variety of its means, the aircraft carrier is often the centerpiece of modern combat fleets. Tactically or even strategically, it replaced the battleship in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sakito Maru
''Sakito Maru'' ( ja, 崎戸丸) was a 7,126-ton Japanese troop transport that operated during World War II. She was sunk on 1 March 1944 with great loss of life. Construction ''Sakito Maru'' was built in 1939 by the Mitsubishi Zosen Kaisha in Nagasaki for the Nippon Yusen shipping company. She was the lead ship of seven ships of the ''Sakito Maru''-class of high speed transports: ''Sakito Maru'' (崎戸丸), ''Sanuki Maru'' (讃岐丸), Sado Maru'' (佐渡丸), ''Sagami Maru'' (相模丸), '' Sagara Maru'' (相良丸), ''Sasako Maru'' (笹子丸), and ''Sakura Maru'' (佐倉丸). Early service On the foggy morning of 4 September 1940, ''Sakito Maru'' collided with the 1,514- gross register ton fishing barge ''Olympic II'', which was anchored on the Horseshoe Kelp fishing bank at the entrance of Los Angeles Harbor off Los Angeles, California. ''Olympic II'' sank in of water with the loss of seven or eight lives. On 24 September 1941, ''Sakito Maru'' took the Japanese car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoshino Maru
''Yoshino Maru'' (Kanji:) was an 8,950-ton Japanese troop transport and hospital ship during World War II, which sank on 31 July 1944 with great loss of life. ''Yoshino Maru'' was built in 1907 as ''Kleist'' for the Norddeutscher Lloyd by the Schichau-Werke in Danzig, Germany. Laid up for the duration of WWI at Padang, Sumatra, Netherlands East Indies. In 1919, she was taken over by the United Kingdom, who transferred her as a War Reparation in 1922 to the Japanese government, where she was renamed ''Yoshino Maru''. In 1929, she was sold to Kinkai Yusen and used as an ocean liner. At the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War, she was chartered, later requisitioned, as a transport ship by the Imperial Japanese Navy. She began use as a hospital ship September, 1942. On 26 January 1944 40 nm north of Rabaul, she was bombed and suffered a near-miss by an American patrol aircraft at 03-45S 151-42E. on 21 April 1944 Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs submitted a protest to the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teia Maru
MS ''Aramis'' was built for France's '' Messageries Maritimes'' for the France-Southeast Asia colonial route. One of her distinguishing features was that her funnels were square-shaped. She was built to carry 1,045 civilian passengers in first, second, third, and steerage class. She was converted to an armed merchant cruiser when France entered World War II, until demilitarized following the Second Armistice at Compiègne on 22 June 1940. ''Aramis'' was seized by Japan in 1942, renamed , and served as a repatriation ship in 1943. She served as a transport between Singapore and Japan in 1944 until sunk in the battle for convoy Hi-71 while assigned to the defense of the Philippines. The most unusual, indeed unique, feature of the ship was its Minoan decor. This was added as part of a programme by the president of the Companie des Messageries Maritimes, Georges Philippar, to give ships unusual revivalist decors from a number of ancient cultures, to get away from the usual 19t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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