Edogawa Maru

History
Japan
Launched| 1944
Completed| 20 May 1944
Fate| Sunk by USS Sunfish, 18 November 1944
General characteristics
Type| Troop transport
Tonnage| 6,968 tons
Length| 128 m (419 ft 11 in)
Beam| 18.2 m (59 ft 9 in)
Draft| 11.1 m (36 ft 5 in)
Propulsion| Steam turbine

Edogawa Maru (Kanji:江戸川丸) was a 6,968-ton Japanese Type 2A Wartime Standard cargo ship that was sunk by USS Sunfish 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 (W-101) and three smaller escorts (Type D escort ship CD-134 and two No.1-class auxiliary submarine chasers, Cha-156 and CHa-157), the convoy hugged the coast of the Korean peninsula to try to avoid American submarines.[1] Nevertheless, a group of three submarines—Peto, Spadefish, and Sunfish—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.[2]

The ships Seisho Maru, Osakasan Maru, and Chinaki Maru were also sunk that night.

## See also[edit]

* List by death toll of ships sunk by submarines

## References[edit]

1. ^ Hackett, Bob; Peter Cundall (2007). "JN Minesweeper W-101: Tabular Record of Movement". Retrieved 2016-10-11.
2. ^ "Edogawa Maru (+1944)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 2016-10-11.

* David L Williams (2012). In the Shadow of the Titanic: Merchant Ships Lost With Greater Fatalities The History Press

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Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in November 1944

Shipwrecks|

* 1 Nov: USS Abner Read, TA20, HMS Whitaker
* 2 Nov: Fort Lee
* 3 Nov: Akikaze
* 5 Nov: Kiebitz, Nachi, PB-107
* 7 Nov: USS Albacore, HM LST-420
* 8 Nov: USS Growler
* 9 Nov: U-537
* 10 Nov: Gokoku Maru, USS Mount Hood
* 11 Nov: Hamanami, Naganami, USS Scamp, Shimakaze, U-771, U-1200, Wakatsuki
* 12 Nov: HMAS Marlean, Tirpitz
* 13 Nov: Akebono, Akishimo, Hatsuharu, Hatsu Maru, I-12, I-38, Kiso, Okinami
* 17 Nov: USS LST-6, Mayasan Maru, NKI 01, Shin'yō (ex-Scharnhorst)
* 18 Nov: I-41, Seisho Maru
* 20 Nov: USS Mississinewa, HMAS ML 827
* 21 Nov: Kongō, Urakaze
* 22 Nov: Hokkai Maru, HMS Stratagem
* 24 Nov: Hansa
* 25 Nov: Kumano, HMCS Shawinigan, Shimotsuki, Sumida, U-482, Yasoshima
* 27 Nov: Rigel
* 28 Nov: U-80, PB-105, Yu 2
* 29 Nov: Fushimi, I-365, Shinano
* Unknown date: Mogador, U-479, U-1020

Other incidents|

* 10 Nov: USS Abarenda, USS Alhena, USS Argonne, USS Aries, USS Cacapon, USS Cebu, HMS Hydra, USS Kyne, USS Lyman, USS Mindanao, USS Oberrender, USS Petrof Bay, USS Piedmont, USS Potawatomi, USS Preserver, USS Saginaw Bay, USS Talbot, USS Walter C. Wann, USS YMS-238, USS Young
* 13 Nov: U-1052
* 17 Nov: HMAS ML 827, Seisho Maru
* 23 Nov: Gus W. Darnell
* 27 Nov: USS Gar
* 28 Nov: USS Spearfish
* 30 Nov: HMS Duff

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