Category:Hie Maru (ship, 1930)

Hie Maru 

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Date of official opening	12 February 1930
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Ship[edit]

• Type: Passenger Liner
• Design by:
• Order date:
• Built by: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Yokohama Dock Company, Yokohama
• Yard No:
• Keel laid: 25.05.1929
• Launch date: 12.02.1930
• Date of completion: 31.07.1930
• Length over all: 163.3 m
• LPP: m
• Beam: 20.1 m
• Draught: 12.5 m
• GRT: 11807
• DWT: t
• NET:
• Main engine: 2 × B&W-Ikegai diesels
• Power: 13122 bhp
• Speed: 18.5 kn
• Passengers: 331 (I class - 76, II class - 69, III class - 186)

History[edit]

• Named: Hie Maru (日枝丸); Owned: Nippon Yusen K. K. (NYK), Tokyo.; Flag: Japan
• 26.11.1941 Commissioned in the Imperial Japanese Fleet
• 9.03-25.04.1942 Converted to submarine tender at Yokosuka Navy Yard
• 17.11.1943 Sunk by USS Drum (SS-228)