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Kokoku Maru

Details:

Title

Kokoku Maru,

Collection

WWII Military Units, HistoryNT, Second World War, 1939-1945,

Date

0000-00-00,

Location

Darwin Harbour, Bathurst Island,

Nation of service

Japan,

Service

Merchant Marine,

Service branch

Mother Pearling Ship,

Unit

Kokoku Maru,

Date arrived in NT

1939-10-05,

Date left the NT

1940-03-04,

History

The Kokoku Maru, a stately vessel of 161 tons and 200 hp had a complete transmitting outfit, the necessary salvage gear and a crew of 24. She was the mother ship tending the pearling fleets off Darwin. She sailed to Darwin for refuelling before leaving for Broome on July 25. She also acted as weather reporting ship in the Banda Sea.,

Notes

Metadata: Attribution International 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0,

Language

English,

Subject

Second World War, 1939-1945, Merchant Navy, Japanese Merchant Marine, Japan, Mothership, Pearling, Kokoku Maru,

File type

image/jpeg,

Use

No known copyright,

Copyright owner

Australian War Memorial,

License

https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/pubic-domain/pdm,

Related links

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C10919 [Australian War Memorial : Photograph 027343, Second World War, 1939-1945], https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/38330374/the-navy-vol-73-no-3-jul-2011-navy-league-of-australia [Wooden luggers: friend or foe?], http://www.navy.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/KING_ARTHUR_TO_KOORINGA.pdf [Kokoku Maru p.83], http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/46412635 [Sunken Pearling Schooner],

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843607,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/844029