World War IIDS Hai Tung

SS Hai Tung was on a journey from Bangkok to Singapore with rice and general cargo. This vessel disappeared suddenly, but later information has surfaced that the ship was torpedoed by the Japanese U-boat  I-156 outside Khota Baru on December 11th 1941, close to Japan’s southernmost landing point on the Malakka peninsula. 6 Norwegians and 44 Chinese sailors perished in the sinking.

Ship master Martin Emil Hansen died of disease on 14 March 1941, before the sinking.

About DS Hai Tung

  • Nationality

    Flag Norway

  • Built

    1904

  • Wrecked

    11.12.1941

  • Carrier

    Wallem & Co.,Bergen

  • Tonnage

    1850 dvt

Casualties