Katori Maru
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Katori Maru is a Japanese ship wreck in the waters off Kuching, Sarawak, in Malaysia.
The vessel began life in 1913 as a passenger and cargo ship built by Mitsubishi Dockyard and Engineering Works in Nagasaki. It was commissioned to carry Japanese troops stationed around the ASEAN region in the Second World War. It weighs 9,849 tonnes and measures 149.4 by 18.6 by 11.0 m, and it reached about 14.5 knots.
Sinking: Katori Maru was operating in the territorial waters of Kuching when the Dutch submarine K-XIV torpedoed it on 23 December 1941.
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