Chūyō

Chūyō was a Taiyō-class escort carrier originally built as Nitta Maru , the first of her class of three passenger-cargo liners built in Japan during the late 1930s. She was requisitioned by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in late 1941 and was converted into an escort carrier in 1942. She spent most of her service ferrying aircraft, cargo and passengers to Truk until she was torpedoed and sunk by an American submarine in late 1943 with heavy loss of life. When it went down, of over 1280 people on board, 161 were saved. The ship was carrying 21 American prisoners of war that had survived the sinking of USS Sculpin, and of them only one survived.

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IJN Chūyō; Nitta Maru
mass 17839 tonne, speed 21 knot, 23 airplane, 
Taiyō-class escort carrier, escort carrier, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Imperial Japanese Navy, 

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Location: 32.6167, 143.65, KML, Cluster Map, Maps,

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  Chūyō ⓘ
  1939 Taiyō-class escort carrier

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World War II Q362

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ship launching

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ship commissioning

1938-05-09T00:00:00Z

1938-05-09T00:00:00Z

keel laying

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Frameless

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
object	watercraft		Chūyō	Taiyō-class escort carrier, escort carrier	Wikidata