List of Shipwrecks in Truk Lagoon

The following World War II Shipwrecks of Truk Lagoon list was created by the U.S. National Park Service (Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons). Shipwrecks of Truk Lagoon:

Read also:

• Ship graveyard in Truk Lagoon, stunning pictures and informative article on the Ghost Fleet of Chuuk.
• Airplane wrecks in Truk Lagoon, next to dozens of Japanese vessels also Japanese airplane wrecks can be found in Chuuk Lagoon.
• Nippo Maru, (aka Nichiho Maru) was torpedoed and sunk in the Balabac Strait west of the Palawan Passage.
• San Fransico Maru, sunk on the 18th of February, 1944 taking 5 crewmen with her.
• Rio de Janeiro Maru, bombed and damaged in the Pacific Ocean east of Umon Island, Truk by United States Navy aircraft. She sank the next day.
• Heian Maru, ocean liner converted into a submarine tender, sunk in February 1944.
• Kiyosumi Maru, auxiliary cruiser which was sunk in the Pacific Ocean off Fefan Island, Truk by United States Navy aircraft.
• Yamagiri Maru, sank by dive bombers from the Yorktown and Bunker Hill.
• Fujikawa Maru, she was sunk on February 18, 1944 by diver bombers.
• Fumitsuki Destroyer, one of only two made-for-war ships sunk in Chuuk.
• Shinkoku Maru, naval tanker that was sunk in February, 1944.
• Hoki Maru, a British/New Zealand cargo and passenger ship launched in 1921 and seized by the Japanese in 1942. Sunk.

Literature:

• Bailey, Dan E.,: WWII Wrecks of the Kwajalein and Truk Lagoons (Paperback). North Valley Diver Pubns.
• Bailey, Dan E.: World War II Wrecks of the Truk Lagoon (Hardcover). North Valley Diver Pubns.
• Lindemann, Klaus: Hailstorm Over Truk Lagoon: Operations Against Truk by Carrier Task Force 58, 17 and 18 February 1944, and the Shipwrecks of World War II (Hardcover). Wipf & Stock Pub.
• MacDonald, Rod: Dive Truk Lagoon: The Japanese WWII Pacific Shipwrecks (Hardcover). Whittles Publishing.

Visual media:

• Franko Maps Ltd: Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon Dive & Wreck Map & Operation Hailstone Franko Maps (Maps)
• Gerken, Mike: The Wrecks of Truk Lagoon – A Documentary Film (DVD). Evolution Underwater Imaging LLC.