Tsukushi Maru Class


Builder and Year Completed:	Kawasaki, Kobe, 1943
Displacement:	8,135-tons.
Dimensions:	unknown’
Propulsion:	2 diesels, 2 shafts.
Armament:	One 152-mm (6-inch) gun and two 13.2-mm single-mount Type 93 machine guns.

Tsukushi Maru Class Auxiliary Submarine Depot Ship

(CHOGEI by Takeshi Yuki scanned from "Color Paintings of Japanese Warships")
TSUKUSHI MARU was requisitioned by the IJN and converted to a submarine depot ship in 1943. She remained in this role early 1945 when she was rerated a transport. TSUKUSHI MARU survived the war and later was used as a repatriation ship by the Allies.

Builder and Year Completed: Kawasaki, Kobe, 1943

Displacement: 8,135-tons.

Dimensions: unknown’
Propulsion: 2 diesels, 2 shafts.

Armament: One 152-mm (6-inch) gun and two 13.2-mm single-mount Type 93 machine guns.