History | |
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Japan | |
Name | Kashi Maru |
Builder | Osaka Iron Works, Sakurajima |
Launched | 21 March 1940 |
Completed | 30 April 1940 |
Fate | Bombed and sunk, 2 July 1943 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Cargo ship |
Tonnage | 654 GRT |
Displacement | 1,365 long tons (1,387 t) |
Length | 52.43 m (172 ft 0 in) |
Beam | 8.6 m (28 ft 3 in) |
Draught | 4.18 m (13 ft 9 in) |
Propulsion | 1 × 6-cylinder 4-stroke 550 hp (410 kW) diesel engine |
Speed | 11.5 knots (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph) |
Complement | 20 |
Kasi Maru or Kashi Maru (橿丸, Kashi Maru, "live oak") was a Japanese auxiliary minelayer/merchant ship, sunk in Mbaeroko Bay, near Munda, during a World War II bombing raid on 2 July 1943.
Kashi Maru was built in 1940 at the Osaka Iron Works. The ship was unloading a cargo of fuel and vehicles[1] when she was attacked and sunk by USAAF B-25 bombers, escorted by USN F4U fighters.[2]
The site of the shipwreck is popular for divers,[3] and was featured in the Nature episode "War Wrecks of the Coral Seas".[4]
8°06′S 157°20′E / 8.100°S 157.333°E / -8.100; 157.333