Talk:USS Pollack (SS-180)

1943

"On 18 May she torpedoed and sank the 3,110-ton ex-gunboat Terushima Maru. Off Jaluit Atoll the next afternoon, she torpedoed and sank the 5,350-ton converted light cruiser Bangkok Maru, which was carrying 1,200 Japanese troops intending to reinforce the garrison at Tarawa."

This is a bug in the source "Silent Victory" by Clay Blair jr. on page 454. The ship "Bangkok Maru" is an auxiliary cruiser, armed merchant cruiser (AMC), not a light cruiser. Bangkok Maru is an armed merchant ship. Source:http://www.combinedfleet.com/Bangkok_t.htm https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?178170 http://www.ww2technik.de/sites/marine/kreuzer/bangkokmaru.htm — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:908:8B0:9FE0:353D:F5F:2F9B:687D (talk) 09:44, 8 February 2020 (UTC)