SS Yoshida Maru No. 1

History
Japan
Name	Yoshida Maru No. 1[1]
Operator	Yamashita Kisen K. K.
Builder	Asano Shipbuilding Company, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama
Completed	January 1919
In service	1919–1944
Fate	Torpedoed and sunk by USS Jack, 26 April 1944
General characteristics
Tonnage	5,425 gross register tons (GRT)
Length	121.9 m (400 ft)
Beam	16.2 m (53 ft)
Height	9.8 m (32 ft)
Propulsion	1 triple expansion engine, single shaft, 1 screw
Speed	10 knots (19 km/h)
Notes	Steel construction

SS Yoshida Maru No. 1 was a Japanese cargo ship owned by Yamashita Kisen K. K. The ship was built in 1919 by Asano Shipbuilding Company, at Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, and sank on 26 April 1944 with great loss of life.

Yoshida Maru No. 1 was built at Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama in 1919. She was the first ship of her class of 25 standard cargo ships (referred to as Type B at the time) built by Asano Shipyard (one was built at the Uraga Dock Company) between 1918 and 1919.^[2]

Yoshida Maru No. 1 was requisitioned as a transport ship by the Imperial Japanese Navy.

In April 1944, she departed Shanghai as part of the Take Ichi convoy carrying a full Japanese regiment of the 32nd Infantry Division. On April 26, 1944 she was spotted and sunk by the submarine USS Jack. There were no survivors^[3] from the 2,586 soldiers, 81 ship's crew, and 2 armed guards aboard at the time of sinking.^[4]

• List by death toll of ships sunk by submarines

• Blair, Clay. (2001). Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-55750-217-9; OCLC 45207785
• David L Williams (2012). In the Shadow of the Titanic: Merchant Ships Lost With Greater Fatalities The History Press