Awa-Maru
Tragic Humanitarian Mission - Awa Maru was Japanese passenger-cargo liner granted safe conduct by Allies for relief mission to Allied POWs in Japanese camps. 11,249 GRT, 498 feet, 19 knots. Carried Red Cross supplies to POW camps February-April 1945. Torpedoed and sunk by USS Queenfish 1 April 1945 despite safe passage guarantee. 2,004 killed, 1 survivor. Most controversial naval incident of Pacific War.
Specifications
- Displacement (std)
- 11249 t
- Displacement (full)
- 11249 t
- Length
- 502 ft
- Beam
- 65.6 ft
- Crew
- 120 (relief mission)
- Ships built
- 1
- Commissioned
- 1943 (civilian), 1945 (relief mission)
- Decommissioned
- 1945 (sunk)
Performance
- Top speed
- 17 kn
- Range
- 12000 at 17 knots
Armament
- Main guns
- None (protected humanitarian vessel)
- Torpedoes
- None
Armor & Systems
- Belt
- None
In-Game
- Tier
- T4
- Game power
- 77.6
- Research cost
- 27,315
- Credit cost
- 54,320
Notable
- Protected humanitarian relief mission to Allied POWs
- Safe passage agreement with Allied powers
- Most controversial sinking of Pacific War
- International incident with post-war implications
- Salvaged 1980s revealing mysteries