''Edogawa Maru'' ( Kanji:) was a 6,968-ton Japanese Type 2A Wartime Standard cargo ship that was sunk by on 18 November 1944 with 2,114 lives lost. ''Edogawa Maru'' sailed as part of convoy MI-27 with seven other ships from

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to Miri, Borneo, on 15 November 1944. Escorted by a converted minesweeper () and three smaller escorts ( Type D escort ship ''CD-134'' and two s, and ''CHa-157''), the convoy hugged the coast of the Korean peninsula to try to avoid American submarines. Nevertheless, a group of three submarines—, , and —found and attacked the convoy on the night of 17/18 November. At 22:00 a torpedo from ''Sunfish'' struck and crippled ''Edogawa Maru''. In the early hours of 18 November a second torpedo from ''Sunfish'' finished off ''Edogawa Maru''. The ship had not been evacuated in the meantime and 1,998 soldiers and 116 crewmen died when the ship sunk. The ships , ''Osakasan Maru'', and ''Chinaki Maru'' were also sunk that night.

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* David L Williams (2012)
''In the Shadow of the Titanic: Merchant Ships Lost With Greater Fatalities''
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