Talk:Tonan Maru No. 3
Latest comment: 1 year ago by Cielquiparle in topic Did you know nomination
![]() | A fact from Tonan Maru No. 3 appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 17 February 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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Did you know nomination
edit- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Cielquiparle (talk) 02:18, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
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- ... that the Japanese vessel Tonan Maru No. 3 (pictured), sunk in a 17 February 1944 air raid, was raised more than seven years later and returned to service as a whaling factory ship? Source: "February 17 1944 Tonan Maru No. 3 Tanker ... Navy carrier-based aircraft Sunk" from list at: Committee, United States Joint Army-Navy Assessment (1947). Japanese Naval and Merchant Shipping Losses During World War II by All Causes. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 54. ISBN 978-0-598-73567-6. and "on 3 March 1951 she was up-righted and refloated ...rebuilt and recommissioned on 8 October 1951 ... continued her service as a whaler and was finally scrapped in April 1971" from: Lindemann, Klaus (1 September 2005). Hailstorm Over Truk Lagoon, Second Edition: Operations Against Truk by Carrier Task Force 58, 17 and 18 February 1944, and the Shipwrecks of World War II. Wipf and Stock Publishers. p. 257. ISBN 978-1-59752-347-9.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Jack Melchor
- Comment: Special date request for 17 February please
Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 15:04, 6 January 2023 (UTC).
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Overall: @Dumelow: Good article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 15:57, 6 January 2023 (UTC)