Tokai Maru
Tokai Maru | |
Tokai Maru, in Limon Bay, Christobal Panama Canal Zone, 20 September 1937 | |
| Location | Apra Harbor |
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| Coordinates | 13°27′33″N 144°39′15″E / 13.45917°N 144.65417°E |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built by | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Shipyard |
| Architectural style | Military transport |
| NRHP reference No. | 88000967 |
| Added to NRHP | July 14, 1988 |
| Wreck of Tokai Maru | |
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Tokai Maru lies at the top of this National Park Service illustration. The drive shaft of Cormoran lies closest to the bottom of the Tokai. The buoy used by recreational scuba divers is marked. | |
| Dive type | Open-water, Deep, Wreck |
| Depth range | 60 to 120 ft (18 to 37 m) |
| Average visibility | 25 to 40 ft (7.6 to 12.2 m) |
| Entry type | Boat, very rarely shore |
| Bottom composition | Metal, silt |
| Nearby sites | SMS Cormoran |
The Tokai Maru was a Japanese passenger-cargo ship built by the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries shipyard that was sunk in Apra Harbor, Guam, in 1943, during World War II.
It had served as a fast ship service between New York City and Japan for Osaka Shosen Co. before World War II; during the war it was used as a military transport ship for the Imperial Japanese Navy.