Tokai Maru

Tokai Maru
Tokai Maru, in Limon Bay, Christobal Panama Canal Zone, 20 September 1937
Tokai Maru is located in Guam
Tokai Maru
Tokai Maru
LocationApra Harbor
Coordinates13°27′33″N 144°39′15″E / 13.45917°N 144.65417°E / 13.45917; 144.65417
Arealess than one acre
Built byMitsubishi Heavy Industries Shipyard
Architectural styleMilitary transport
NRHP reference No.88000967[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 14, 1988
Wreck of Tokai Maru
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 typeOpen-water, Deep, Wreck
Depth range60 to 120 ft (18 to 37 m)
Average visibility25 to 40 ft (7.6 to 12.2 m)
Entry typeBoat, very rarely shore
Bottom compositionMetal, silt
Nearby sitesSMS 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.

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.