List of Japanese hell ships

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• – bombed 15 December 1944. No POWs aboard. Burong
• Buyo Maru Celebes MaruChichibu Maru – sunk by 28 April 1943. No POWs aboard. Cho Saki MaruChuka MaruChuyo – sunk by 4 December 1943. 20 of the 21 POWs aboard died. Clyde MaruCoral MaruDai Moji MaruDai Nichi MaruDaikeku MaruEngland MaruEnoshima MaruEnoura Maru – sunk by Allied aircraft on 9 January 1945, resulting in the deaths of approximately 400 Allied POWs.Enuri MaruErie MaruFrance MaruFuji MaruFukkai MaruFuku MaruFukuji MaruFukuju MaruHakuroku MaruHakusan Maru – sunk by 4 June 1944. No POWs aboard. Hakushika MaruHaru MaruHarugiku Maru Heiyo MaruHioki MaruHiyoki MaruHofuku Maru – sunk on 21 September 1944 by American aircraft, while carrying 1,289 British and Dutch POWs. 1,047 of them died.Hokko MaruHokusen Maru Hozan MaruIkoma Maru – sunk on 21 January 1944 by. 418 of 611 Indian POWs aboard were killed.Ikuta MaruImabari Maru Interisland SteamerJunyō Maru – torpedoed 18 November 1944 with loss of over 5,000 lives, including 1,300 POWsKachidoki Maru – sunk by on 12 September 1944. Of 900 POWs, 400 perished. The remaining were transferred to the Kibitsu Maru and taken on to JapanKaishun MaruKaiun MaruKakko MaruKalgan MaruKamakura Maru – sunk by on 28 April 1943. No POWs aboard. Kenkon Maru Kenwa MaruKenzan MaruKiaota MaruKibitzu MaruKohho MaruKokusei MaruKonosue MaruKoryu MaruKōshū Maru – sunk by on 4 August 1944. 1,239 out of 1,513 POWs, most of them Javanese labourers, died.Kunishima MaruKurimata MaruKyokko MaruKyokusei MaruLima MaruLisbon Maru – sunk by on 2 October 1944. Of the 1,816 British POWs, 842 perished.Maebashi Maru Makassar MaruMaros MaruMaru Go Maru Hachi Maru Ichi Maru Ni Maru No. 760Maru RokuMaru San Maru Shi Maru Shichi Mati Mati MaruMatsu MaruMatti Matti MaruMaya MaruMayebassi MaruMelbourne MaruMishima MaruMiyo MaruMoji MaruMontevideo Maru – sunk by on 1 July 1942. all 1,054 Australian POWs and civilians died.Nagara MaruNagata MaruNagato MaruNanshin MaruNaruto MaruNatoru MaruNichimei Maru – Sunk on 15 January 1943 by U.S. aircraft, transporting 1,500 Japanese troops and 965 Dutch POWs of which 32 POWs died.Nishi MaruNissyo MaruNitikoku MaruNitimei MaruNitta MaruYoshida Maru No. 1No. 2 Hikawa Maru No. 6 Kotobuki MaruNo. 7 Hoshi MaruNo. 17 Nanshin MaruNoto MaruOiteOryoki MaruOryokko MaruOryoku Maru – sunk by U.S. airplanes on 15 December 1944, killing 270 of the 1,620 POWs aboard.OSK FerryOtaro MaruOyo MaruPacific MaruPanama MaruRaihei Maru
• – sunk by on 12 September 1944. Of 1,317 POWs, 1,159 POWs perished. 63 were rescued four days later by the submarines that sank the convoy she was inRashin Maru RendsbergRio de Janeiro MaruRoko MaruRokyo MaruRyūkyū MaruSamurusan MaruSan Diego MaruSandakan SteamerSanko MaruSeikyo MaruSekiho Maru Shinsei Maru
• – sunk on 7 September 1944 by. 668 out of 750 American POWs aboard were killed.Shinyu Maru – damaged on 25 October 1942 by Dutch submarine HNLMS O 23 and abandoned. Some 100 out of 500 POWs drowned.Shoun MaruSibijacSingapore Maru – left Batavia in Java 17 October 1942 with 3,000 British prisoners, arrived Moji, Japan, 25 November 1942, 108 died on the journey.Singoto MaruSoong CheongSuez Maru – sunk on 29 November 1943 by. All 550 British, Dutch, Irish and New Zealand FEPOWs died. Some 300 died in the initial explosion from the two torpedo impacts and the ship's boiler exploding, both in the vicinity of these casualties in the rearmost Hold 4, or drowned on the sinking of the ship or were later shot after some 7-8 hours struggling in the sea. They were NOT trying to escape. The Japanese aboard the escort minesweeper set up twenty riflemen and two machineguns and deliberately massacred the c.250 PoW survivors in the water. The massacre was the subject of a detailed war crime investigation and the subject of two books and. Sugi MaruTachibana MaruTaga MaruTaian MaruTaiko MaruTaikoku MaruTaka MaruTamahoko Maru – sunk on 25 February 1944 by. 560 of the 772 Australian, British, American and Dutch prisoners were killed.Tango Maru – sunk on 25 February 1944 by. Some 300 allied POWs were amongst the 3,000 killed.Tanjong PenangTateishi Maru, colloquially known as No. 86Tatsuta MaruTattori MaruTatu MaruTeia Maru Teiryu Maru, colloquially known as No. 824Tenno Maru, formerly, scuttled as Hikawa Maru No. 2Tenshin MaruThames MaruTiensenTofuku MaruTojuku MaruToka MaruToko MaruTomohoku Maru Toro MaruTottori MaruToyama MaruToyofuku MaruToyohashi MaruTufuku MaruUbe MaruUme MaruUmeda Maru
• Un'yōUruppu MaruUssuri MaruUsu MaruWales MaruWeills MaruWinchester MaruYamagata MaruYashu MaruYinagata MaruYone MaruYoshida Maru – sunk on 18 January 1944 by.Yubi Maru
• ''Yuzan Maru''