IJN · AK

Junyo Maru

Sunk

Cargo ship, about 5,065 gross tons. The characters are 順陽丸. Not the carrier Junyo. Launched at Port Glasgow on 30 October 1913 as Ardgorm. The Army requisitioned her on 6 October 1943. On 18 September 1944 HMS Tradewind sank her off western Sumatra while she was carrying prisoners and Javanese forced laborers for the Sumatra railway. More than 5,000 people died. The counts are not agreed.

Type	Cargo ship (AK)
Builder	Robert Duncan & Co., Port Glasgow
Launched	1913-10-30
Fate	Sunk. by HMS Tradewind on 18 September 1944 off the west coast of Sumatra, near 2°53′S, 101°11′E. She was carrying Allied prisoners and Javanese forced laborers. The dead are put at more than 5,000. The counts are not agreed. This is not the carrier Junyo.

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

Junyo Maru at Vancouver on 28 March 1933. Photograph by Walter E. Frost. City of Vancouver Archives, marked public domain. This is the cargo ship, not the carrier Junyo.

The pictures on this page are the originals.