SS Lima Maru

Lima Maru was a 6,989 -ton Japanese troop transport during World War II, which sank on 8 February 1944 with great loss of life.

The Lima Maru was built in 1920 by the Mitsubishi Zosen Kaisha in Nagasaki for the Nippon Yusen shipping company.

On 8 February 1944, as part of convoy MOTA-02, she was transporting around 2,900 men of the Japanese 19th Brigade from Moji to Takao. The Lima Maru was torpedoed and sunk by the US submarine USS Snook (SS-279) some 30 miles south east of the Goto Archipelago at position 31°05´N, 127°37´E. The Lima Maru exploded and sank very fast. Fewer than 150 soldiers survived.