Tenryo Maru (Japanese: 天領丸) was a requisitioned Imperial Japanese Army cargo/transport ship during World War II. In September 1936, the Soviet Union ordered...

ice-breaking cargo freighter for the Tatsunan Kisen Co. and was renamed Chiryō Maru. Bolshevik and Komsomolets were renamed Minryo Maru (民領丸) and Tenryo Maru (地領丸)...

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consisting of cargo/transport ships Kuretake Maru, Kasugasan Maru, Tenryo Maru, and supply ship Shirasaki, with Shimushu-class escort ships Shimushu and...

off Korea. On 19 May 1945, Kashima collided with and sank the cargo ship Daishin Maru in Tsushima Strait. A gasoline tank in Kashima's port bow was damaged...

Leyte Gulf, surviving the submarine and air attacks that sank several Japanese ships, and in turn damaging several US warships and helping to sink the destroyer...

in World War II. Blohm & Voss built her in Hamburg in 1930–31 as the cargo ship Kurmark. The navy requisitioned her at the start of World War II, had...

(in German). Retrieved 14 October 2015. "Japanese Escorts". Combinedfleet.com. Retrieved 1 May 2014. "Chowa Maru". combinedfleet.com. Retrieved 18 September...

of Japanese aircraft over the landing area. Early on 25 October, two flights took off: one toward the Mindanao Sea to locate and finish off Japanese survivors...

Netherlands New Guinea, as part of the screen for two divisions of attack cargo ships, part of Task Group 78.6. The task group was diverted to Biak en route...

cargo, embarked 30 passengers, and got back underway the same day for her return voyage. She arrived at Yokosuka on 17 September 1944. While in Japan...

her most successful patrol, sinking eight ships. On 4 May she torpedoed the Swedish cargo steamship Japan, which was in Convoy OB 310 from England to...