Awata Maru class


Year Completed:	1937
Displacement:	7,398-tons.
Dimensions:	Length 478', beam 61', draft 26'
Propulsion:	1 Mitsubishi-Sulzer diesel, 1 shaft, 8,000 shp, 19 knots.
Armament:	4 x (140-mm/(5.5-inch)/50 cal. single mount guns, two twin mount Type 96 25-mm AA, one quadruple mount, four single mount 13.2-mm MGs, three single mount 7.7-mm MGs. Four 533-mm (21-inch) torpedo tubes (2x2).

Awata Maru Class

(Hokoku Maru by Takeshi Yuki scanned from "Color Paintings of Japanese Warships")
In 1941, the passenger-cargo ship AWATA 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 that same year.

Year Completed: 1937

Displacement: 7,398-tons.

Dimensions: Length 478', beam 61', draft 26'
Propulsion: 1 Mitsubishi-Sulzer diesel, 1 shaft, 8,000 shp, 19 knots.

Armament: 4 x (140-mm/(5.5-inch)/50 cal. single mount guns, two twin mount Type 96 25-mm AA, one quadruple mount, four single mount 13.2-mm MGs, three single mount 7.7-mm MGs. Four 533-mm (21-inch) torpedo tubes (2x2).