SS Shinyō Maru

Seychelles postage stamp of the ship as Clan Mackay
History
Name
  • 1894: Clan Mackay
  • 1913: Ceduna
  • 1924: Tung-Tuck
  • 1937: Chang Teh
  • 1937: Pananis
  • 1943: Shin'yō Maru
Namesake
Owner
  • 1894: Cayzer, Irvine & Co
  • 1901: The Clan Line Steamers Ltd
  • 1913: Adelaide SS Co
  • 1924: John McLeod Bolton
  • 1924: Woo Kuei Fen
  • 1936: Tung Tuck SS Co
  • 1937: Lee Yuen SS Co
  • 1937: JD Tsounias
  • 1941: Japanese Government
Operator
  • 1924: Tung Tuck & Co
  • 1937: China Hellenic Lines Ltd
Port of registry
BuilderNaval Construction & Armament Co, Barrow-in-Furness
Cost£28,500
Yard number229
Launched31 October 1894
CompletedDecember 1894
Identification
Capturedby Japanese forces, 1941
FateTorpedoed and sunk by USS Paddle, 1944
General characteristics
Typecargo ship
Tonnage
  • 1896: 2,600 GRT, 1,665 NRT
  • 1937: 2,744 GRT, 1,600 NRT
Length312.0 ft (95.1 m)
Beam40.2 ft (12.3 m)
Draught1 ft 0 in (0.3 m)
Depth24.7 ft (7.5 m)
Decks2
Installed power317 NHP
Propulsiontriple-expansion engine
Speed13+12 knots (25.0 km/h)
Crewas hell ship: 52 crew and guards
Notes

Shin'yō Maru was a cargo steamship that was built in 1894, had a fifty-year career under successive British, Australian, Chinese and Greek owners, was captured by Japan in the Second World War, and sunk by a United States Navy submarine in 1944.

She was built in England for Clan Line as Clan Mackay. She was the second of five Clan Line ships to be named after that clan. In 1913 the Adelaide Steamship Company bought her and renamed her Ceduna. In 1924 Tung Tuck & Co acquired her and renamed her Tung-Tuck. In 1937 Lee Yuen Steamship Co acquired her and renamed her Chang Teh, then passed her on to China Hellenic Lines who renamed her Pananis.

Japanese forces captured Pananis in 1941, and renamed her Shin'yō Maru in 1943. In 1944 she was being used as a Hell ship when the submarine USS Paddle torpedoed her. 668 American and Allied prisoners of war (PoWs) were killed either by the torpedo explosions, or by Japanese guards who machine-gunned the PoWs.