Shoun Maru (1941)

Builder:
Tama Shipyard
Tamano, Japan
Ordered:
N/A
Keel Laid:
N/A
Year Built:
1941
Launched:
N/A
Type:
Freighter
Completed:
June 1941
GRT:
4,396
Fate:
Sunk June 23, 1944 (torpedo) by aircraft from USS White Plains CVE-66.
(VC-4 TBM-1C Avenger, Lt. Edward R. Fickenscher, Jr., USN.)

Location: North Pacific, Rota Island, Mariana Islands.
(14.10N-145.10E)

Casualties unknown.
Owners
Matsuoka Kiesen KK
Fuchu, Japan


Builder's Data
Page published Mar. 17, 2019