was a 5,974-gross register ton passenger ship that was built by Kawasaki Dockyard Company, Kobe, for Tōyō Kisen Kabushiki Kaisha. The ship was launched in 1930. She was requisitioned by the Imperial Japanese Army and fitted out as a fast troop transport and sunk on 2 May 1945 after being torpedoed.
Military service Ryoto Maru was requisitioned by the Imperial Japanese Army and fitted out as a fast troop transport. She was part of the invasion fleet that landed troops during the invasion of Ambon on 30 January 1942, and part of the invasion fleet at Buna-Gona.
On 4 March 1944, she was damaged when struck by a large wave and driven aground off Matsuwa Jima, in the Kuril Islands. Ryōyō Maru was anchored in a harbour along the Kuril Islands, when she was struck by a torpedo from on 2 May. She settled in of water, decks awash at .Blair, p. 596.
See also Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation Imperial Japanese Army Railways and Shipping Section
Notes
References Blair, Clay, Jr. Silent Victory. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1975.
External links Chronological List of Japanese Merchant Vessel Losses