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SS Rakuyō Maru
SS was a passenger cargo ship built in 1921 by the Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Nagasaki for Nippon Yusen Kisen Kaisha.
==Service history==
The troopship was part of convoy HI-72 and transporting 1,317 Australian and British prisoners of war (POWs) from Singapore to Formosa (Taiwan). On the morning of 12 September 1944, the convoy was attacked in the Luzon Strait by a wolfpack consisting of three US submarines: , and . ''Rakuyo Maru'' was torpedoed by ''Sealion'' and sunk towards the evening. A total of 1,159 POWs died, whereof 350 in lifeboats which were bombarded by a Japanese navy vessel the next day when they were rowing towards land.〔(Prisoners Of War Of Japanese 1942-45: ''Surviving the sinking of the Rakuyo Maru'' ) Linked 2015-02-20〕 On 15 September, the three submarines returned to the area and rescued 63 surviving POWs who were on rafts. Four of them died before they could be landed at Tanapag Harbor, Saipan, in the Mariana Islands.〔
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