For other ships with the same name, see Hakuyo Maru.
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Hakuyo Maru (Japanese: 白陽丸) was a Japanese transport ship of during World War II.
History
She was laid down on 3 July 1941 at the Kobe shipyard of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. for the benefit of Osaka Merchant Shipping Co., Ltd., Osaka.[1] She was launched on 29 August 1942 and completed on 29 December 1942.[1]
23 October 1944, she left Kataoka Bay Naval Base, Shimushu Island, Kuril Islands for Otaru in convoy WO-303 consisting of transports Hokoku Maru and Umegawa Maru escorted by the destroyer Kamikaze and Etorofu-class escort shipFukue.[2][3] The transports are filled with naval personnel and fishery workers being removed to the homeland for the winter from the islands of Shimushu and Paramushiro.[2]
On 25 October 1944, she was torpedoed and sunk by the submarine USS Seal at 50°21′N150°20′E / 50.350°N 150.333°E / 50.350; 150.333[2][4][5] west of the Kuril Islands. She sank quickly in the frigid waters with 1,415 lives lost including 1,312 passengers.[2]Seal evaded depth charge
attacks by the escorts and the remainder of the convoy reached Otaru safely.[2]
