16,975grt for Nippon Yusen KK from Mitsubishi, Nagasaki

Tatuta Maru 1938 Nippon Yusen KK

Torpedoed by US submarine Tarpon off Japan 1943

Image attribution: Yoshiaki Nishimura

Tatsuta Maru, marked with symbols of safe passage while working as a repatriation ship as seen through the periscope of the U.S. Navy submarine USS Kingfish (SS-234) in October 1942.