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	THE SINKING OF THE LISBON MARU
		At daylight the Lisbon Maru changed course 50 degrees, leaving Grouper in a poor position from which to attack.
		Lisbon Maru remained on course and a fourth torpedo was fired.
		Captain Kyode Shigeru, master of the Lisbon Maru, was tried before a different Tribunal in October and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
	www.subvetpaul.com /SAGA_2_95.htm (1339 words)

	Lisbon Maru: The facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In the Annals of modern warfare the sinking of the "Lisbon Maru", as a result of which over 1000 officers and men lost their lives, does not perhaps rate very high as a horror story.
		A conference was held onboard the "Lisbon Maru", and the remaining troops were transferred to the "Toyokuni Maru".
		The 25 guards along with the 77 crew remained onboard, with arrangements for the "Lisbon Maru" to be towed to shallow waters.
	www.hamstat.demon.co.uk /HongKong/Lisbon_Maru.html (3640 words)

	Do fundo do mar... Sea bottom: Man's inhumanity to man
		Yet the torturous tale of the Lisbon Maru has, until now, been largely forgotten, submerged as it is beneath the waves of history, which washed over the world and Britain with the traumatic fall of Singapore and the remorseless rise of Hitler in Europe.
		Now, The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru: Britain's Forgotten Wartime Tragedy by British author Tony Banham will be published this month and it comes allied with the decision of the Chinese government to build a large memorial close to the site of the sinking in honor of those who survived and those who did not.
		What all the men on the Lisbon Maru shared was the misfortune to be trapped in Hong Kong when the Japanese launched their Pacific campaign of conquest with the simultaneous attack on Pearl Harbour and Hong Kong on December 7, 1941.
	dofundodomar.blogspot.com /2006/05/mans-inhumanity-to-man.html (1592 words)

	Lisbon Maru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		My father George Wilkinson was on board the Lisbon Maru Sadly he died in 1989 but before he died he wote his life story and gave an account of the sinking of the Lisbon Maru.
		Reg confirmed this, as they lost everything on board the Lisbon Maru the Japanese fitted them out with white socks which had a sole and were shaped like a mitten, they had one toe and the rest of the toes were together.
		He went on the Lisbon Maru and was on the voyage when it was torpedoed.
	www.fepow-community.org.uk /monthly_Revue/html/lisbon_maru.htm (2461 words)

	Photographs and Memorabilia
		Enoura Maru and Brazil Maru -- On December 27, 1944 the POWs that survived the attacks on the Oryoku Maru were loaded into the cargo holds of two ships - the Enoura Maru and the Brazil Maru - for the voyage to Takao, Formosa where they arrived on December 31, 1944.
		The Shinyo Maru left Zamboanga in convoy on September 7, 1944; however, the USS Paddle was waiting near Sindangan Point, Mindanao where it torpedoed the Shinyo Maru late on the same day.
		The Ebara Maru was outfitted as a tanker; however, it was identical in appearance to the Enoura Maru except for the pipes on the deck.
	www.west-point.org /family/japanese-pow/photos.htm (4276 words)

	BBC - WW2 People's War - Hong Kong - Lisbon Maru Sinking/3
		The prisoners, who had previously suffered the intense heat of Lisbon Maru’s holds, now had to endure the cold and exposure of the deck, which was partially protected by a tarpaulin.
		Thirty five of the prisoners who were seriously ill were left in Shanghai and the remainder were then loaded in the holds of a Japanese transport, the “Shensei Maru”, in conditions similar to those on the Lisbon Maru.
		Captain Kyodo Shigeru, Master of the Lisbon Maru, was tried before a different Tribunal in October 1946 and was also sentenced to 15 years.
	www.bbc.co.uk /ww2peopleswar/stories/23/a4105423.shtml (2881 words)

	Hell Ships Memorial Project Memorial Site
		The Shinyo Maru was torpedoed on September 7, 1944 by the USS Paddlefish off the coast of Mindanao.
		The Enoura Maru took a direct hit by a U.S. Navy bomber, killing over half of the 500 POWs; the survivors were put aboard the Brazil Maru and they arrived in Moji, Japan on January 29, 1945.
		Lisbon Maru, torpedoed by USS Grouper in October 1944, went down with another 846 POWs, the only bright memory being an unarmed rush by men of the Middlesex Regiment, who overran and killed several Japanese sentries assigned to keep the prisoners cooped up in the holds of the sinking ship.
	www.hellshipsmemorial.org /hellships.htm (432 words)

	WWII Veteran's Reminiscent Journey Back to China
		If not for the sinking of the Lisbon Maru, a Japanese prisoner ship, Jordan's life would never have intersected with the Dongji Islands and those fishermen on these tiny islands in east China's Zhejiang Province.
		Except for three soldiers who managed to escape by hiding in a cave, Jordan and the other rescued soldiers were recaptured by the Japanese and taken back to Japan and were not freed until the war ended in 1945.
		All this was made possible because of the bravery and kindness of the people of the Zhoushan Islands who rescued him and many others on the 2nd October 1942, after the sinking of the Lisbon Maru.
	sars.china.com.cn /english/features/139182.htm (806 words)

	Hong Kong 1942: [SS Lisbon Maru and SS214 USS Grouper] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Hong Kong 1942: [SS Lisbon Maru and SS214 USS Grouper]
		SS 214 USS Grouper fired 6 Mk 14 torpedo's at the Lisbon Maru after tailing her for a long time.
		At no time did her C.O see any sign that the Lisbon Maru was anything other than an armed merchantman.
	www.hamstat.demon.co.uk /HongKong/Lisbon.html (149 words)

	List of Hellship Voyages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Lisbon was torpedoed on 10/01/42 by USS Grouper - Survivors boarded the Shinsei Maru
		Carried survivors of Lisbon Maru - Shinsei was torpedoed by USS Tarpon on 08/28/43
		Erie Maru was torpedoed on 01/11/44 by USS Sturgeon
	www.west-point.org /family/japanese-pow/Ships.htm (905 words)

	Lisbon Maru
		The sinking of the Lisbon Maru has created many discussions, and I have also received several letters from the relatives of men who were on board when she was sunk by an American submarine.
		The first batch of prisoners had already been successfully transported to Japan immediately after we had been taken prisoner, On the 25th September 1942 more prisoners were embarking aboard the Lisbon Maru under the command of Lieutenant Walda of the Imperial Japanese army.
		A total of 1,816 men and officers were accommodated in three holds.
	www.nesa.org.uk /html/lisbon_maru.htm (659 words)

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	1942 rescue back in limelight--浙江在线-English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The three Britishers disclosed the truth of "the Lisbon Maru Incident" and the Japanese army's mistreatment of British soldiers through broadcasts in Chongqing, the first time it became known in public.
		As time passed, the "Lisbon Maru Incident" was remembered only by historians and insiders.
		In fact, the "Lisbon Maru Incident" has also caught the attention of Tony Banham, a British war history scholar, who first learned of the incident in 1988 and decided to write a book on it.
	english.zjol.com.cn /05english/system/2005/04/12/006090756.shtml (538 words)

	WILLIAM ARTHUR BARLOW
		Petty Officer Alf Hunt, a survivor on the Lisbon Maru explains the appalling conditions on board in his account ‘Story of Her Last Days’.
		The Lisbon Maru, a 7000 ton freighter, was armed as she carried Japanese Troops but, in direct contravention with the Geneva Agreement, bore no sign that she was carrying 1,816 P.O.W s.
		Now, almost sixty years on, ex- Prisoners of War, including survivors of the Lisbon Maru, have met with ex- Japanese Servicemen, Japanese students, teachers and officials to share and help each other understand their experiences.
	www.jacksdale.org.uk /pages/MemorProj/WW2F/barlow.htm (791 words)

	KIWINEWS - The Real Kiwi Homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The "Lisbon Maru" carried no Red Cross markings to signal that POWs were stuffed in her holds.
		On the night of 31 September, the submarine USS "Grouper" got on her tail believing her to be a troop carrier.
		At dawn she fired six torpedoes and caught the "Lisbon Maru" on the stern with one.
	www.kiwinews.co.nz /cgi-bin/editor/print.pl?article=3117 (3276 words)

	BBC - WW2 People's War - Hong Kong - Lisbon Maru Sinking/1
		On September 27th 1942 George and nearly 2,000 other British prisoners were loaded on the 4,000 ton cargo ship Lisbon Maru to be taken to Japan to work in Prisoner of War camps.
		Shortly after they set sail the Lisbon Maru was torpedoed by the American submarine USS Grouper off some islands near Shang Hai 1st October 1942 — the Japanese Troops on board were transferred to other ships, but the prisoners were battened down under the hatches in the holds as the ship slowly sank.
		You may be interested to know that I just completed a book on the loss of the Lisbon Maru for which I intereviewed all the survivors from the ship, three surviving Chinese fishermen involved in the rescue, and the last survivor from the Grouper.
	www.bbc.co.uk /ww2peopleswar/stories/66/a4065266.shtml (1070 words)

	:: Welcome To Holiday In... Lisbon ::
		For tourist information whilst in the city, a good place to visit is the new Lisboa Ask Me Centre, there are also smaller kiosks dotted around the Rossio distrct to help visitors.
		Lisbon's climate is one of the warmest in europe.
		There are many museums to visit in Lisbon, such as the Gulbenkian Museum, which has many egyptian artifacts and paintings by famous europeans.
	holidayin-lisbon.co.uk /acatalog/Lisbon-Map-.html (90 words)

	maru Top 10 Bestselling Search: maru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Maru Killer: The War Patrols of the Uss Seahorse
		Belly of the Beast: A POW's Inspiring True Story of Faith, Courage, and Survival Aboard the Infamous WWII Japanese Hellship, the Oryoku Maru
		The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru: Britain's Forgotten Wartime Tragedy
	www.indology.net /books-maru.html (97 words)

	Asian Review of Books
		In this case prisoners were put on an armed boat, the Lisbon Maru, to ship them from Hong Kong to Japan.
		The basic facts concerning the Lisbon Maru are known to anyone with some knowledge about Hong Kong during the war, but the story is much more than the simple fact of the sinking.
		The story is about the men who were captured at the fall of Hong Kong and who then had to endure the horrors of the Lisbon Maru.
	www.asianreviewofbooks.com /arb/article.php?article=695 (1090 words)

	Lisbon Maru-p3
		Thirty five of the worst dysentery patients were left in Shanghai and the remainder were taken aboard the SS Shinsei Maru, where five men later died.
		On arrival at Moji enroute for Osaka fifty more very sick prisoners were dropped off at Kokura with a similar number at Hiroshima.
		The Lisbon Maru was not marked in any way to indicate that she was carrying prisoners of war, which in itself was a contravention of the Geneva agreement.
	www.nesa.org.uk /html/lisbon_maru-p3.htm (541 words)

	Kobe House POW Camp - Japan
		Kobe Hospital was a separate camp in the foothills on the north end of Kobe.
		Unknown number of Royal Scots and British survivors of the Lisbon Maru were present when Australians arrived.
		British POW Alan Harman, Royal Arty- ex Lisbon Maru.
	www.mansell.com /pow_resources/camplists/osaka/kobe/kobehouse-main.htm (338 words)

	LitPundit » Non-fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Perhaps too enthusiastic: Roberts is rather quick to defend some of Holman’s more egregious errors, including his tendency to pad his books with unreliable accounts of places to which he’d never traveled.
		Richard Garrett reviews Tony Banham’s “The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru: Britain’s Forgotten Wartime Tragedy” and thinks that the narrative is
		not just about the actual sinking of the Lisbon Maru — it tells the story of all those involved: the POWs, the Americans who fired the torpedoes and the Japanese.
	read.litpundit.com /blog/category/non-fiction (2459 words)

	Stanford Projects - Home
		Some bits were missing, and in addition, it was sometimes very hard to read, so some guess work was involved.
		The book will cover the fall of Hong Kong in 1941, the Lisbon Maru and the USS Grouper,, the Royal Scots 2nd Bat and other participants, my grandfather Frederick Stanford, step grandfather James Clarke.
		I will also cover the notorious CO-OP Wars in Dagenham in 1938 (!), the family and the effect of evacuation when they travelled on various ships including the TSS Awatea, to and from Australia.
	www.stanfordprojects.co.uk (386 words)

	Help needed Translation POW Cards Japanese - Wehrmacht-Awards.com Militaria Forums
		(the Suez Maru) that he was being transported on.
		Thankyou Jareth and Eric for your help.Eric my research says he was on the Lisbon Maru not the Suez Maru
		Looking forward to the other card been translated I will give details on what I have on him later.
	www.wehrmacht-awards.com /forums/showthread.php?t=53515 (448 words)

	COFEPOW - Stories - Lisbon Maru Poem
		This a tale of Death that was slow in the dark for a day and a night
		It was the morning roll-call on the hell ship Lisbon Maru
		who survived the sinking of the 'Lisbon Maru'
	www.cofepow.org.uk /pages/stories_lisbon_maru_poem.htm (775 words)

	Lisbon Maru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		On 27th September 1942 the Lisbon Maru left Hong Kong for Shanghai with 1816 prisoners on board.
		The roll below is of the British fatalities
		Please click on a button for personnel dedication page
	www.britain-at-war.org.uk /Roll_of_honour/Hell_Ships/Lisbon_Maru (34 words)

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