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Horai Maru

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TypeTransport (AP)
FateSunk. Transport, 9,192 tons. Sank in the shallows of Bantam Bay on the night of 28 February 1942. Not credited to one ship.

Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.

Horai Maru
Horai Maru at Keelung, about 1923. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Horai Maru was an Osaka Shosen liner of 9,192 tons, taken up as a transport. The photograph shows her at Keelung, about 1923.

She sank in the shallows of Bantam Bay with the other transports. That loss is not credited to one ship. Her master that night was not in the lists that were read.

The pictures on this page are the originals.