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:	Six 152-mm/50 cal. (6-inch) licence-built Vickers guns (6x1) and two Type 93 dual mount 13.2-mm machine guns and one 1110-mm and one 900-mm search light.

Yasukuni Maru Class Auxiliary Submarine Depot Ship

(Yasukuni Maru as a prewar NYK liner)

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: Six 152-mm/50 cal. (6-inch) licence-built Vickers guns (6x1) and two Type 93 dual mount 13.2-mm machine guns and one 1110-mm and one 900-mm search light.