Tatsuta Maru

Tatsuta Maru

國家	日本
造船廠	Mitsubishi Nagasaki Shipyard
安放龍骨日期	1927年12月3日
下水日期	1929年4月12日
服役日期	1930年3月15日
沉沒日期	1943年2月8日
排水量	16,975 tons standard
長度	583 feet
寬度	71 feet
動力來源	Four Sulzer diesels, four screws
速度	21 knots

Contributor: C. Peter Chen

ww2dbaseOcean liner Tatsuta Maru was built built in the late 1920s for the Japanese company Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK). She had one sister ship, Asama Maru, which was launched a few months before her. Her maiden voyage took her from Yokohama, Japan to San Francisco, California, United States. Through the 1930s, she made trips between Asia and west coast of the United States. Aside from Yokohama and San Francisco, she also frequently visiting Hong Kong; Shanghai, China; Kobe, Japan; Honolulu, Hawaii, United States; and Los Angeles, California, United States. In 1938, her romanized name became Tatuta Maru, though her real name Japanese remained unchanged. On 14 Oct 1941, she was acquired by the Japanese Navy and served as a troop transport; in this role she visited many major bases in the Pacific, including Singapore, Borneo, Korea, Taiwan, Dutch East Indies, Truk in the Caroline Islands, Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands, among others. On 8 Feb 1943, at 1600 hours, she departed Yokosuka, Japan with troops on board, escorted by destroyer Yamagumo. At 2215 hours, 42 miles east of Mikura Jima or about 80 miles south-southeast of the opening of Tokyo Bay, she was hit by about four torpedoes launched by American submarine USS Tarpon. She sank at 2237 hours, killing 1,223 passengers and 198 crew. Yamagumo was unable to find any survivors due to bad weather and the darkness of the night.

ww2dbaseSource: Wikipedia.

Last Major Revision: Aug 2010

Tatsuta Maru 互動地圖

Photographs

Postcard featuring Japanese ocean liner Tatsuta Maru, early 1930s

Exchange ship Tatsuta Maru showing her non-combatant markings as photographed through the periscope of the submarine USS Kingfish, Kii Channel, Japan, 14 Oct 1942.

Tatsuta Maru Operational Timeline

1927年12月3日	The keel for ship numbered 451 was laid down at Mitsubishi Shipbuilding's yard at Nagakaki, Japan.
1929年4月12日	Ship number 451 of Mitsubishi Shipbuilding's Nagasaki Yard in Japan was launched and named Tatsuta Maru.
1930年3月15日	Tatsuta Maru was completed.
1930年4月25日	Tatsuta Maru departed Yokohama, Japan on her maiden voyage.
1931年7月29日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at San Francisco, California, United States.
1932年6月23日	Tatsuta Maru departed Yokohama, Japan with some of the athletes participating in the 1932 Olympics.
1932年6月30日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Honolulu, US Territory of Hawaii.
1932年7月1日	Tatsuta Maru departed Honolulu, US Territory of Hawaii.
1932年7月6日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at San Francisco, California, United States.
1932年7月8日	Tatsuta Maru departed San Francisco, California, United States.
1932年7月9日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, United States and disembarked athletes participating in the 1932 Olympics.
1932年11月9日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at San Francisco, California, United States.
1934年1月3日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at San Francisco, California, United States.
1934年4月26日	Tatsuta Maru departed Yokohama, Japan.
1934年5月3日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Honolulu, US Territory of Hawaii.
1934年5月9日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at San Francisco, California, United States.
1935年7月9日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at San Francisco, California, United States.
1936年5月14日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at San Francisco, California, United States.
1936年9月3日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at San Francisco, California, United States.
1936年11月12日	Tatsuta Maru became the first merchant ship to pass under the Bay Bridge between San Francisco and Oakland In California, United States.
1937年2月25日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Honolulu, US Territory of Hawaii.
1937年5月20日	Tatsuta Maru departed San Francisco, California, United States for Honolulu, US Territory of Hawaii.
1937年7月7日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at San Francisco, California, United States.
1937年9月2日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at San Francisco, California, United States; many of her passengers were refugees from Shanghai, China.
1937年12月25日	Tatsuta Maru departed San Francisco, California, United States for Honolulu, US Territory of Hawaii.
1938年7月7日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at San Francisco, California, United States.
1938年7月28日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Yokohama, Japan.
1938年8月25日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at San Francisco, California, United States.
1939年1月12日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at San Francisco, California, United States.
1939年4月4日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Honolulu, US Territory of Hawaii.
1939年9月20日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at San Francisco, California, United States.
1940年1月18日	Tatsuta Maru departed San Francisco, California, United States; 512 civilian seamen from the scuttled German liner Columbus were supposed to be aboard, but they canceled their journeys at the last moment in fear of possible British interception of the liner which might lead to their imprisonment.
1940年3月21日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at San Francisco, California, United States.
1940年7月13日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at San Francisco, California, United States; among the passengers disembarked were 40 Jewish refugees from Russia, Austria, Germany, Norway, and Britain.
1940年11月13日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at San Francisco, California, United States.
1941年3月6日	Tatsuta Maru departed Yokohama, Japan with new skipper Captain Toichi Takahata.
1941年3月14日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Honolulu, US Territory of Hawaii; among the passengers disembarked was Kita Nagao, the newly appointed Japanese Consul General to hawaii.
1941年3月20日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at San Francisco, California, United States; among the disembarked passengers was Colonel Hideo Iwakuru, who was dispatched by Prime Minister Hideki Tojo to Washington DC to help the Japanese Embassy in reconciling relations with the United States.
1941年3月21日	Tatsuta Maru departed San Francisco, California, United States; among the passengers was German Army General Werner Thiel.
1941年7月10日	Tatsuta Maru departed Yokohama, Japan for Honolulu, US Territory of Hawaii on her 68th voyage.
1941年7月28日	Tatsuta Maru set a new trans-Pacific crossing record.
1941年7月30日	A committee consisted of US Treasury, State, and Justice Department officials granted an exception of the rule to freeze Japanese national assets so that Tatsuta Maru's owners could withdraw enough funds to pay for fuel for a return trip to Japan.
1941年8月4日	Tatsuta Maru departed San Francisco, California, United States with US$2,500,000 worth of raw silk and 85,589 gallons of oil, both which was only allowed after Captain Toichi Takahata fought hard for due to the recently passed executive order to freeze Japanese assets in the United States.
1941年8月17日	Tatsuta Maru departed Yokohama, Japan; Captain Toichi Takahata was replaced by Japanese Navy Reserve officer Captain Sakao Kimura.
1941年8月28日	Tatsuta Maru departed Kobe, Japan; among the passengers were 349 Jewish refugees.
1941年9月15日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Shanghai, China.
1941年10月12日	The American and Japanese Press announced that Tatsuta Maru would depart Yokohama, Japan for San Francisco, California, United States via Honolulu on 15 Oct 1941.
1941年10月14日	Tatsuta Maru was acquired by the Japanese Navy and was assigned to the Yokosuka Naval District, Japan. Her civilian crew was replaced by that from the military.
1941年10月15日	Tatsuta Maru departed Yokohama, Japan for the United States; she carried American nationals who wished to return to the US due to the rapidlyl deteriorating US-Japan relations. She would maintain radio silence throughout the entire journey.
1941年10月23日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Honolulu, US Territory of Hawaii at 1000 hours and disembarked American nationals who wished to return to the US due to the rapidly deteriorating US-Japan relations. Two Japanese intelligence agents who carried instructions for the consulate and a supply of radios for civilian spies already in place on Oahu, Hawaii were also disembarked.
1941年10月24日	Tatsuta Maru departed Honolulu, US Territory of Hawaii for San Francisco, California, United States.
1941年10月30日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at San Francisco, California, United States and disembarked non-Japanese passengers who departed due to the rapidly deteriorating US-Japan relations, including El Savadorian Consul General Leon Siguenza and Commander P. D. Perkins of the American Foreign Office in Japan. She then embarked Japanese nationals who wished to leave the US for similar reasons, and departed San Francisco.
1941年11月2日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Honolulu, US Territory of Hawaii, embarked Japanese nationals who wished to return to Japan due to the rapidly deteriorating US-Japan relations, and then departed for Japan; she would become the last passenger ship to leave the US before the start of the Pacific War.
1941年11月14日	Tatsuta Maru departed Yokohama, Japan.
1941年12月2日	Tatsuta Maru departed Yokohama, Japan for San Francisco, ostensibly for the second repatriation voyage to bring Japanese nationals in the United States to Japan. Her planned voyage would take her to Honolulu and San Francisco in the United States, then Manzanillo in Mexico, followed by Balboa in the Panama Canal Zone.
1941年12月6日	Tatsuta Maru was in the Pacific en route for San Francisco, California, United States; her planned passenger list after arriving in the United States now included employees of the Japanese Raw Silk Intelligence Bureau, the Silk Department of Mitsui and Company, Gunze Corporation, Asahi Corporation, Japanese Cotton and Silk Trading Company, Hara and Company, Katakura and Company, Morimura and Company, Arai and Company, and Shinyai and Company.
1941年12月7日	At about midnight at the very beginning of the day, Tatsuta Maru was ordered to reverse course.
1941年12月14日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Yokohama, Japan.
1942年1月17日	Tatsuta Maru was re-requisitioned by the Japanese Navy and was attached to the Yokosuka Naval District, Japan.
1942年1月27日	Tatsuta Maru departed Yokohama, Japan, arrived at Yokosuka, Japan, and then departed for Yokohama once again.
1942年2月2日	Tatsuta Maru departed Yokohama, Japan.
1942年2月4日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Busan, Korea.
1942年2月5日	Tatsuta Maru departed Busan, Korea.
1942年2月11日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands.
1942年2月20日	Tatsuta Maru departed Truk, Caroline Islands.
1942年2月24日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Mereyon, Palau Islands.
1942年2月25日	Tatsuta Maru departed Mereyon, Palau Islands.
1942年3月1日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Kwajalein, Marshall islands.
1942年3月9日	Tatsuta Maru departed Kwajalein, Marshall Islands.
1942年3月11日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Wake Island.
1942年3月12日	Tatsuta Maru departed Wake Island.
1942年3月17日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Yokosuka, Japan.
1942年3月21日	Tatsuta Maru departed Yokosuka, Japan.
1942年3月22日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Tokuyama, Japan and took on fuel.
1942年3月25日	Tatsuta Maru departed Tokuyama, Japan and arrived at Kure, Japan.
1942年3月27日	Tatsuta Maru departed Kure, Japan and arrived at Kobe, Japan.
1942年3月28日	Tatsuta Maru departed Kobe, Japan.
1942年3月29日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Yokohama, Japan.
1942年3月30日	Tatsuta Maru departed Yokohama, Japan.
1942年4月5日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Tarakan, Borneo.
1942年4月7日	Tatsuta Maru departed Tarakan, Borneo.
1942年4月8日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Balikpapan, Borneo and took on fuel.
1942年4月10日	Tatsuta Maru departed Balikpapan, Dutch Borneo.
1942年4月11日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Makassar, Celebes.
1942年4月18日	Tatsuta Maru departed Makassar, Celebes.
1942年4月20日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Kupang, Timor and then departed later on the same day.
1942年4月22日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Ambon, Maluku Islands and then departed later on the same day.
1942年4月24日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Davao, Philippine Islands.
1942年4月25日	Tatsuta Maru departed Davao, Philippine Islands.
1942年4月28日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Takao, Taiwan.
1942年4月30日	Tatsuta Maru departed Takao, Taiwan.
1942年5月1日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Kirun (now Keelung), Taiwan.
1942年5月2日	Tatsuta Maru departed Kirun (now Keelung), Taiwan.
1942年5月5日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Yokohama, Japan.
1942年5月10日	Tatsuta Maru departed Yokohama, Japan.
1942年5月15日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Davao, Philippine Islands.
1942年5月17日	Tatsuta Maru departed Davao, Philippine Islands.
1942年5月19日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Manila, Philippine Islands.
1942年5月20日	Tatsuta Maru departed Manila, Philippine Islands.
1942年5月24日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Sasebo, Japan.
1942年5月26日	Tatsuta Maru departed Sasebo, Japan.
1942年5月28日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Yokohama, Japan.
1942年6月4日	Tatsuta Maru departed Yokohama, Japan.
1942年6月7日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Saipan, Mariana Islands.
1942年6月8日	Tatsuta Maru departed Saipan, Mariana Islands.
1942年6月10日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands.
1942年6月13日	Tatsuta Maru departed Truk, Caroline Islands.
1942年6月16日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Jaluit, Marshall islands, and departed for and arrived at Emidji on the same day.
1942年6月17日	Tatsuta Maru departed Emidji.
1942年6月18日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Taroa, Marshall Islands.
1942年6月20日	Tatsuta Maru departed Taroa, Marshall Islands and arrived at Wotje, Marshall Islands.
1942年6月22日	Tatsuta Maru departed Wotje, Marshall Islands.
1942年6月23日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Kwajalein, Marshall islands.
1942年6月24日	Tatsuta Maru departed Kwajalein, Marshall Islands.
1942年6月30日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Yokohama, Japan.
1942年7月30日	Tatsuta Maru departed Yokohama, Japan with 60 Allied internees including Ambassador Sir Robert Craigie and British embassy staff from Tokyo, Yokohama, and Kobe, Belgian Ambassador and Mrs. M. Fortholme, Greek Minister M. Politis, Egyptian Minister M. Samaika, Australian diplomat Keith Officer, Norwegian diplomat and Mrs. M. Kolstadt, Dutch diplomat and Mrs. M. Reuchlin, Czechoslovakian Minister Mr. Havlicek and consular officials from Yokohama and Kobe, and other British and foreign nationals. It was the first Japanese-British diplomatic exchange.
1942年8月1日	Gato-class submarine USS Silversides sighted a large passenger liner off Honshu Japan. The ship's silhouette and markings identified her as the non-combatant Tatsuta Maru engaged in repatriating diplomatic personnel to their home countries.
1942年8月5日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Shanghai, China and embarked interned Allied personnel; she would depart later on the same day.
1942年8月9日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Saigon, Indochina and embarked interned Allied personnel.
1942年8月14日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Singapore and departed later on the same day; she now carried almost 1,000 interned Allied personnel.
1942年8月27日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Lourenço Marques, Portuguese East Africa (now Maputo, Mozambique). The nearly 1,000 interned Allied personnel aboard were exchanged with the British for Japanese diplomats and supplies. She also took on 48,818 Red Cross parcels meant for Allied prisoners of war currently in Japanese custody.
1942年9月2日	Tatsuta Maru departed Lorenco Marques, Portuguese East Africa.
1942年9月17日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Singapore.
1942年9月27日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Yokohama, Japan.
1942年12月11日	Tatsuta Maru was re-requisitioned by the Japanese Navy and was attached to the Yokosuka Naval District, Japan.
1942年12月12日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Sasebo, Japan.
1942年12月14日	Tatsuta Maru departed Sasebo, Japan and arrived at Nagasaki, Japan later in the same day.
1942年12月19日	Tatsuta Maru departed Nagasaki, Japan.
1942年12月21日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Mako, Pescadores and departed later in the same day.
1942年12月23日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Manila, Philippine Islands.
1942年12月25日	Tatsuta Maru departed Manila, Philippine Islands.
1942年12月26日	A fire broke out on Tatsuta Maru, but it was quickly extinguished.
1942年12月28日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Balikpapan, Borneo and took on fuel.
1942年12月31日	Tatsuta Maru departed Balikpapan, Dutch Borneo.
1943年1月1日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Makassar, Celebes.
1943年1月8日	Tatsuta Maru departed Makassar, Celebes.
1943年1月11日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Singapore.
1943年1月14日	Tatsuta Maru departed Singapore at 0900 hours.
1943年1月18日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Hong Kong.
1943年1月19日	Tatsuta Maru departed Hong Kong at 1300 hours with 1,180 men aboard, including 663 Canadian prisoners of war from the Sham Sui Po prisoner of war camp.
1943年1月22日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Nagasaki, Japan at 0400 hours. The 663 Canadian prisoners of war aboard were disembarked where they would be sent to work in the mines as forced laborers.
1943年1月23日	Tatsuta Maru departed Nagasaki, Japan and arrived at Sasebo, Japan later on the same day.
1943年1月25日	Tatsuta Maru departed Sasebo, Japan.
1943年1月26日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Osaka, Japan.
1943年1月28日	Tatsuta Maru departed Osaka, Japan.
1943年1月29日	Tatsuta Maru arrived at Yokosuka, Japan.
1943年1月30日	Tatsuta Maru departed Yokosuka, Japan and arrived at Yokohama, Japan later on the same day.
1943年1月31日	Tatsuta Maru departed Yokohama, Japan and arrived at Yokosuka, Japan later on the same day.
1943年2月8日	Tatsuta Maru departed Yokosuka, Japan at 1600 hours, escorted by destroyer Yamagumo. At 2215 hours, at 42 miles east-southeast of Mikura Jima in the Izu Islands south of Tokyo, US submarine USS Tarpon sank her with about four torpedoes. Tatsuta Maru sank at 2237 hours, killing 1,223 passengers and 198 crew. Destroyer Yamagumo failed to find any survivors in the darkness and in the rough seas.
1943年3月10日	The Japanese Navy removed Tatsuta Maru from the Navy List.

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Visitor Submitted Comments

1. Nick Messinger says:
14 Mar 2014 05:44:34 AM

An excellent narrative - much appreciated.

2. Anthony.Lambert says:
7 Feb 2017 06:19:09 PM

My father was an employee of the British Consulate Saigon. Our family- parents and three children (born in Saigon), boarded the Tatuta maru on Aug./9/42 and after almost 3 months travel were repatriated to home Country Ceylon, after disembarking in Lorenco Marques, went on to Durban, Egypt, and Bombay, and by finally by train to Colombo. Although not yet 5 years of age, have memories of the day we left Saigon and some memories of this ship. The journey from Durban to Egypt was on a Troop ship packed with soldiers bound for the middle east.

3. Anonymous says:
8 Feb 2019 06:07:59 PM

Main Article say's few survivors and references Wikipedia which says no survivors. 8 Feb 1943 entry says no survivors, should be consistent.

C. Peter Chen says:
9 Feb 2019 06:39:16 PM

Anonymous of 8 Feb 2019: Thank you for your note, we have corrected the text in the main article.

5. Jackie Littleton says:
5 May 2020 09:00:01 AM

My research on another matter shows the Tatuta Maru arr. San Francisco from Yokohama 1 Jan 1941

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