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TIL That the Lisbon Maru was a Japanese Cargo Liner sunk on 1st Oct 1942 while carrying over 1800 British POWs. The hatches were ordered battened down by the Captain preventing escape. Local Chinese fishermen came to the rescue and saved 384 men.

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