The Hofuku Maru, also known as Hohuku Maru was a Japanese cargo ship, sunk on September 21, 1944 by American planes, while carrying 1,289 British and Dutch prisoners of war (POWs); 1,047 of them died. The Hofuku Maru was sailing from Singapore to Miri, Borneo as part of convoy SHIMI-05. The convoy consisted of 10 ships, 5 of which carried, in total, 5,000 POWs, all in appalling conditions.