The Three Lost Sailors of Hojun-maru (1834)

The Kuroshio, also known as the Japan Current, carried the helpless, and unsteerable ship along in its tow. The ship was pulled across the pacific by the current and even though the pull weakened near Hawaii the Hojun-maru and the men on board of her were still carried up the coast towards what is now Washington State. Ship Name: Hojun-Maru Ship Type: Sengoku-bune Nationality: Japanese Year Wrecked: 1834 Reason for Wreck: Unmanagable, ran aground Location Wrecked: Washington State Lives Lost: 11 Sources: http://www.berendt.info/assets/files/The%20First%20English%20Teacher%20Ranald%20MacDonald.pdf https://www.knkx.org/2014-04-29/japanese-retrace-path-of-history-making-castaways-to-wash-coast-180-years-later https://www.historylink.org/File/9074 https://www.columbian.com/news/2021/jun/13/clark-county-history-japanese-castaways/ https://www.britannica.com/place/Kuroshio https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10338782/ http://www.jmottoson.com/Kairei.html https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/647646/kuroshio-current-japan http://staff.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/JapaneseShipwrecks-Grant-Keddie.pdf https://www.historylink.org/File/9065 https://www.nps.gov/articles/castawaysatfova.htm https://www.jstor.org/stable/20705601?read-now=1&seq=2#metadata_info_tab_contents https://biblioasia.nlb.gov.sg/vol-12/issue-2/jul-sep-2016/yamamoto-otokichi