Bangkok Maru class


Builder and Year Completed:	Mitsubishi, Kobe 1937
Displacement:	5,400-tons (nominal).
Dimensions:	Length 376'-3", beam 55'-8", draft 32'-8"
Propulsion:	2 Mitsubishi-Sulzer diesels, 1 shaft, 488 n.h.p, 18 knots.
Armament:	4 x 120mm (4.7-inch)/45 cal LA, 1 x-7.7mm MG, 500 mines.

Bangkok Maru Class

(Bangkok Maru by Ueda Kihachiro)
In 1941, the passenger-cargo ships BANGKOK and SAIGON MARUs were requisitioned from the Osaka Shosen K.K. (O.S.K) Line by the IJN and converted to an armed merchant cruiser shipyard.

Builder and Year Completed: Mitsubishi, Kobe
1937

Displacement: 5,400-tons (nominal).

Dimensions: Length 376'-3", beam 55'-8", draft 32'-8"
Propulsion: 2 Mitsubishi-Sulzer diesels, 1 shaft,
488 n.h.p, 18 knots.

Armament: 4 x 120mm (4.7-inch)/45 cal LA,
1 x-7.7mm MG, 500 mines.