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History
Empire of Japan
Name	Hakuyo Maru
Builder	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Kobe[1]
Laid down	3 July 1941
Launched	29 August 1942
Sponsored by	Osaka Merchant Shipping Co., Ltd., Osaka
Completed	29 December 1942
Identification	49541[1]
Fate	Sunk by USS Seal, 25 October 1944
Notes	Call sign: JFWB[1]
General characteristics
Type	transport ship
Tonnage	5,742 grt (16,260 m3) standard[1]
Length	112.95 m (370 ft 7 in) o/a[1]
Beam	18.50 m (60 ft 8 in)[1]
Draught	10.11 m (33 ft 2 in)[1]
Installed power	2,000 hp (1,491 kW)[1]

Hakuyo Maru (Japanese: 白陽丸) was a Japanese transport ship of during World War II.

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She was laid down on 3 July 1941 at the Kobe shipyard of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. for the benefit of Osaka Merchant Shipping Co., Ltd., Osaka.^[1] She was launched on 29 August 1942 and completed on 29 December 1942.^[1]

23 October 1944, she left Kataoka Bay Naval Base, Shimushu Island, Kuril Islands for Otaru in convoy WO-303 consisting of transports Hokoku Maru and Umegawa Maru escorted by the destroyer Kamikaze and Etorofu-class escort ship Fukue.^[2][3] The transports are filled with naval personnel and fishery workers being removed to the homeland for the winter from the islands of Shimushu and Paramushiro.^[2]

On 25 October 1944, she was torpedoed and sunk by the submarine USS Seal at 50°21′N 150°20′E / 50.350°N 150.333°E / 50.350; 150.333^[2][4][5] west of the Kuril Islands. She sank quickly in the frigid waters with 1,415 lives lost including 1,312 passengers.^[2] Seal evaded depth charge attacks by the escorts and the remainder of the convoy reached Otaru safely.^[2]

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