Qualla: Tango Maru https://qualla.com/tango-maru en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:37 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Tango Maru https://qualla.com/tango-maru Tango Maru: Introduction https://qualla.com/tango-maru/ She was built in Hamburg, launched as Rendsburg on 1 September 1925, and completed the following February for the Deutsch-Australische Dampfschiffs-Gesellschaft. She was seized in the Dutch East Indies, scuttled as a blockship, raised by the Japanese, and finally torpedoed while carrying thousands of prisoners and laborers. The ship that became Tango Maru lived four lives under three names and three flags, and each transformation reflected a new chapter of the wars that consumed the twentieth century's first half.

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/9/3/g/tango-maru-wp/w93g-tango-maru-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Tango Maru: German Engineering, Colonial Waters https://qualla.com/tango-maru/ Rendsburg was one of three sister ships ordered by DADG in the mid-1920s -- the company's first motor vessels. All three were built at Hamburg shipyards: Vulcan-Werke completed Duisburg in July 1925 and Rendsburg in February 1926, while Blohm+Voss finished Magdeburg in December 1...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/9/3/g/tango-maru-wp/w93g-tango-maru-german-engineering-colonial-waters.mp3 0:06 2 full Tango Maru: Seized, Scuttled, Raised https://qualla.com/tango-maru/ When war broke out in September 1939, German merchant ships scattered to neutral ports worldwide. Rendsburg took shelter at Tanjung Priok in the Dutch East Indies. On 10 May 1940, Germany invaded the Netherlands, and the Dutch colonial authorities seized every German vessel in th...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/9/3/g/tango-maru-wp/w93g-tango-maru-seized-scuttled-raised.mp3 0:06 3 full Tango Maru: The Hell Ship https://qualla.com/tango-maru/ By 1944, Tango Maru was serving as what history remembers as a hell ship -- a vessel used by the Japanese military to transport prisoners of war and forced laborers under conditions of extreme deprivation. The people packed into her holds endured overcrowding, minimal food and wa...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/9/3/g/tango-maru-wp/w93g-tango-maru-the-hell-ship.mp3 0:06 4 full Tango Maru: Echoes in the Strait https://qualla.com/tango-maru/ The name Tango Maru was not unique. At least two other Japanese ships carried it during the Second World War. One was the Talang Akar, a British-built, Dutch-owned tanker sunk in the Makassar Strait in November 1943 -- by the same submarine, USS Rasher. Another was a Japanese-bui...

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