Heian Maru Class


Builder and Year Completed:	HEIAN MARU: Osaka Iron Works, 1930 HIE MARU: Mitsubishi, Yokohama, 1930
Displacement:	11,616-tons.
Dimensions:	511.8' x 66’ x 30’
Propulsion:	2 Burmeister & Wain diesels, 2 shafts, 7, 600 shp.
Armament:	2 x 4.7-inch (120-mm) LA guns

Heian Maru Class Auxiliary Submarine Depot Ships

(CHOGEI by Takeshi Yuki scanned from "Color Paintings of Japanese Warships")
In 1941, both the HEIAN and HIE MARUs were requisitioned by the IJN from their owners, the Nippon Yusen K. K. (NYK) Line, and ordered converted to submarine depot ships. The HIE MARU was torpedoed and sunk off Truk in November 1943. The HEIAN MARU was sunk by TF 38 planes in the raid on Truk in February 1944.

Builder and Year Completed: HEIAN MARU: Osaka Iron Works, 1930
HIE MARU: Mitsubishi, Yokohama,
1930

Displacement: 11,616-tons.

Dimensions: 511.8' x 66’ x 30’
Propulsion: 2 Burmeister & Wain diesels, 2 shafts, 7, 600 shp.

Armament: 2 x 4.7-inch (120-mm) LA guns