(AKAGI MARU passing through the Panama Canal in
1937)
In 1941, the passenger-cargo ship AKAGI MARU was requisitioned from
the Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) Line by the IJN and converted to an armed
merchant cruiser at Mitsubishi's Nagasaki shipyard. She was rerated a
transport in 1943 and sunk at Truk in 1944.
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| Year Completed: |
1936
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| Displacement: |
7,387-tons. |
| Dimensions: |
Length 462', beam 62.3', draft 27.7' |
| Propulsion: |
1 Mitsubishi-Sulzer diesel, 1 shaft, 8,000
shp, 19 knots. |
| Armament: |
5 x 152-mm (6-inch), guns, one 76-mm
(3-inch) AA gun and two 7.7-mm MGs. |
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