Category:Kokuyō Maru (ship, 1939)

Ship edit

• Type: Tanker
• Design by:
• Order date:
• Built by: Kawasaki, Kōbe Shipyard
• Yard No: 106
• Keel laid: 17.06.1938
• Launch date: 26.12.1938
• Date of completion: 16.05.1939
• Length over all: 160.2 m
• LPP:152.4 m
• Beam: 19.8 m
• Draught: 11.3 m
• GRT: 10187
• DWT: t
• NET:
• Main engine: 1 × MAN/Kawasaki D8Z-70/120
• Power: 11033 bhp
• Speed: 19.6 kn
• Liquid cargo: m3

History edit

• Named: Kokuyō Maru (国洋丸); Owned: Kokuyo Kisen K. K., Tokyo; Flag: Japan
• 16.11.1940 Commissioned in the Imperial Japanese Fleet
• 30.07.1944 Sunk by USS Bonefish (SS-223)