SS Yoshida Maru

Yoshida Maru was a Japanese cargo ship owned by Nippon Yusen Kaisha. The ship was built in 1941 by Hakodate Dock at Hakodate on the northern island of Hokkaidō.

History

Yoshida Maru was built at Hakodate; and she left port in August 1941 on her maiden voyage.
The 2,921-ton vessel had a length of, and her beam was. The single turbine, single screw propulsion produced an average speed of.
Yoshida Maru was requisitioned as an auxiliary gunboat/minelayer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was armed with three guns of 12 cm and machine guns. On 1 October 1943 she was reregistered as an auxiliary transport. On 18 January 1944, she was sunk by the submarine west-southwest of Minami-Tori-shima at with the loss of 76 passengers, eight crewmen and 15 gunners.