DIVING TRUK LAGOON
400' (122m), 5.446-ton Passenger-Cargo Ship served from Tokyo to New York beginning in 1920, but was assigned for Army troop transfers. Her assignment for Navy use began in late 1943, as she was carrying miscellaneous provisions, tools, bombs, coal, landing craft and passengers to Truk Lagoon as part of a convoy which lost a ship during the trip to submarine USS Snapper. Early in the morning on February 17, 1944 she was hit by American dive bombers from USS Intrepid, which set her ablaze. Multiple explosions occured when the munitions hold caught fire. She sank two days later. Eight crewmen were killed.
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Diving Truk Lagoon
