It eventually sunk in Chuuk Lagoon.Ĭhuuk Lagoon, itself, was considered the strongest Japanese stronghold in the Pacific during World War II, so there are a number of other wrecks across the atoll. By the following year, the ship was back in service again until it was hit by yet another torpedo, this time launched by a strike bomber attached to a carrier group that included the USS Monterey and Bunker Hill. In September 1943, an American submarine, Permit, hit the ship with a torpedo. Just a year before Pearl Harbor, in 1940, the Imperial Japanese Navy took over the Fujikawa and converted it into an aircraft ferry, complete with stern guns salvaged from old military ships. Location: Chuuk Lagoon, Federated States of MicronesiaĬoming in at 450 feet long, the ship-which Mitsubishi built for shipowners Toyo Kaiun back in 1938-was used as a liner in the North American run and later carried cargo like raw silk, cotton, jute and flax.

The crumpled bow is about 10 meters below the surface.

Today, the ship lies at the bottom of the Red Sea in three sections. It appeared that the Giannis D had drifted west of her set course and ran aground at full speed on the northwest edge of the Sha’ab Abu Nuhas Reef.' Soon afterwards he was rudely awakened by the sound of his ship running aground. Once on course for open water, the Captain turned over the helm to one of his junior officers and retired to his cabin to rest. 'On 19 April 1983 the ship was in transit in the Straits of Gubal, which is a rather narrow shipping lane before reaching the open waters of the Red Sea. Here's how the ship took on water and sunk, according to The Red Sea Project:

Its last voyage departed from Rijeka, Yugoslavia, in 1983, carrying lumber bound for Jeddah in Saudi Arabia and Yemen. It was eventually sold in 1975 and renamed 'Markus.' Then it was sold again in 1980 to the Dumarc Shipping and Trading Corporation in Piraeus, Greece, and renamed the 'Giannis D.'

At first, the cargo ship was built as the 'Shoyo Maru' in Imabari, Japan in 1969. The Giannis D went by many names before it sunk.

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