Hokoku Maru (1940)

Builder:
Tama Zosensho K.K.
Tama, Tokyo, Japan
Ordered:
N/A
Keel Laid:
August 18, 1938
Year Built:
1940
Launched:
July 5, 1939
Type:
Passenger/Cargo
Completed:
June 22, 1940
Owners
1940-1941: Osaka Shosen Kaisha
Osaka, Japan
1941-1942:
Imperial Japanese Navy (requisitioned Aug. 29, 1941)
Fate:
Sunk Nov. 11, 1942 by gunfire from MS Ondina (Capt. Willem Horsman)
and HMIS Bengal (Lt. Cdr. William J. Wilson).

Location: Indian Ocean, 1,340 miles southwest of Jakarta, Indonesia.
(19.45S-92.40E)
Notes:
Converted into an Armed Merchant Cruiser, commissioned Sept. 20, 1941.


Combat Victories
     
Date
Name
Type
Tons
Nationality
Notes
Dec. 12, 1941
Vincent
Freighter
6,210
USA
a

May 9, 1942

Genota
Tanker
7,987
Netherlands
b
July 12, 1942
Hauraki
Freighter
7,113
UK
c
   
Sunk:
6,210
   
   
Captured:
15,100
   
   
Total:
21,310
   
Notes
(a):
Assisted by the AMC Aikoku Maru. Captured and scuttled by gunfire.
(b):
Captured, taken as prize. Commissioned into IJN as Ose on July 20, 42.
Sunk Mar. 30, 1944 by USN aircraft.

(c):
Assisted by the AMC Aikoku Maru. Captured taken as prize.


Builder's Data
Page published Feb. 10, 2015