Yasukuni Maru Class


Builder and Year Completed:	Mitsubishi Shipbuilding, 1930
Displacement:	11,933-tons.
Dimensions:	507.6' x 64’ x 30’
Propulsion:	2 Krupp Germania diesels, 2 shafts, 7, 600 shp.
Armament:	2 x 3.15-inch (80-mm)/40 cal HA guns

Yasukuni Maru Class Auxiliary Submarine Depot Ship

(CHOGEI by Takeshi Yuki scanned from "Color Paintings of Japanese Warships")
Requisitioned by the IJN in 1940, the YASUKUNI MARU was converted to a submarine depot ship in 1941. She remained in this role until torpedoed and sunk off Truk in January 1944.

Builder and Year Completed: Mitsubishi Shipbuilding, 1930

Displacement: 11,933-tons.

Dimensions: 507.6' x 64’ x 30’
Propulsion: 2 Krupp Germania diesels, 2 shafts, 7, 600 shp.

Armament: 2 x 3.15-inch (80-mm)/40 cal HA guns