


Tsushima Maru
Country | Japan |
Builder | Russell & Company, Greenock, Scotland, United Kingdom |
Sunk | 22 Aug 1944 |
Displacement | 6,754 tons standard |
Length | 446 feet |
Contributor: C. Peter Chen
ww2dbasePassenger ship Tsushima Maru of the shipping company Nippon Yusen Kaisha was carrying a large number of Japanese civilians evacuating from Okinawa to Kagoshima when the convoy she was sailing with, Namo 103, was detected by American submarine USS Bowfin on 22 Aug 1944. Tsushima Maru was sunk near the island of Akusekijima some time between 2200 and 2230 hours, killing 2,251, which included 767 of the 826 children aboard. None of the surviving ships in the convoy stopped to rescue the survivors in fear of continued attacks by the enemy submarine. Tsushima Maru's wreck was located and identified in Dec 1997.
ww2dbaseSource: Wikipedia
Last Major Revision: Dec 2010
Tsushima Maru Mapa Interativo
Photographs
![]() |
Tsushima Maru Operational Timeline
22 Aug 1944 | American submarine USS Bowfin attacked Japanese convoy Namo 103 and sank passenger ship Tsushima Maru near the island of Akusekijima. 2,251 aboard were killed, including 767 children; most of those killed were civilian evacuees from Okinawa. |
Você gostou deste artigo ou achou este artigo útil? Se sim, considere nos apoiar no Patreon. Qualquer valor já vai ajudar! Obrigado. Por favor, ajude-nos a divulgar o site: Fique atualizado com WW2DB: |
Visitor Submitted Comments

28 Jul 2021 05:15:14 PM
Christine Jacobson (above):
Tsushima Maru was certainly a victim of the doctrine of unrestricted submarine warfare, practiced by all sides in World War II. The policy was controversial at the time and would probably not find its way into the rules of engagement today. Tsushima Maru’s cargo and passenger compliment was almost certainly unknown to Commander Corbus, commander of submarine USS Bowfin. The Bowfin action report is quite detailed and devotes far more attention to evading detection and setting up the attack than to what the nature of the targets were. He recognized that the convoy’s two large ships were cargo or troop ships but paid little attention to their types beyond that. He was there to sink Japanese shipping and that’s what he did. These were the rules of engagement that were equally well-understood by the Japanese. If placing so many civilians on one ship to ply these waters was putting them in such peril, part of the responsibility for their loss rests with those who placed them there.
7 Jun 2024 02:33:34 PM
i would like information on obtaining a passenger manifest for the Tsushima Maru, as I was told an uncle of mine was one of the children lost @ sea....one Seiyu Kaneshiro Kin Town.
All visitor submitted comments are opinions of those making the submissions and do not reflect views of WW2DB.

- » US State Lawmaker John Winter Caught Using Racial Slur "Jap" and Apologized (11 Jun 2025)
- » Köln/Cologne Evacuated After Discovery of WW2 Bombs (4 Jun 2025)
- » US Women's Army Corps "Six Triple Eight" Awarded with Congressional Gold Medal (30 Apr 2025)
- » Race, Holocaust, and African-American WW2 Histories Removed from the US Naval Academy Library (7 Apr 2025)
- » US Government Plans to Purge WW2 Information (17 Mar 2025)
- » Ver todas as notícias
- » 1,177 biografias
- » 337 eventos
- » 44,938 entradas na linha do tempo
- » 1,245 navios
- » 350 modelos de aeronaves
- » 207 modelos de veículos
- » 376 modelos de armas
- » 123 documentos históricos
- » 261 instalações
- » 470 eventos
- » 28,477 fotos
- » 365 mapas
Thomas Dodd, late 1945

Por favor, considere nos apoiar no Patreon. Mesmo R$1 por mês já faz uma grande diferença. Obrigado!

Ou, por favor, nos apoie adquirindo alguns produtos do WW2DB na TeeSpring. Obrigado!
28 Jul 2021 12:55:04 PM
I cannot find any reason for the sinking of this ship. Why did the United States do it? Did they know it had so many children on board? Who was the person that ordered it?