Category:Kyokutō Maru (ship, 1934)

Kyokutō Maru 

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Instance of	cargo ship
Country of registry	Honduras
Date of official opening	15 December 1934
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Ship[edit]

• Type: Tanker
• Design by:
• Order date:
• Built by: Kawasaki, Kōbe Shipyard
• Yard No: 18
• Keel laid: 25.11.1933
• Launch date: 11.10.1934
• Date of completion: 15.12.1934
• Length over all: 160.2 m
• LPP: 152.4 m
• Beam: 19.8 m
• Draught: 11.3 m
• GRT: 10212
• DWT: t
• NET:
• Main engine: 1 × MAN/Kawasaki D8Z-70/120
• Power: 8963 bhp
• Speed: 18.9 kn
• Liquid cargo: 16100 m3

History[edit]

• Named: Kyokutō Maru (極東丸); Owned: Iino Lines; Flag: Japan
• 5.07.1938 Commissioned in the Imperial Japanese Fleet
• 15.01.1942 Renamed: Ōyashima Maru (大八州丸)
• 21.09.1944 Sunk in shallow water by aircraft at Manila Bay
• 10.1944 Salved
• 19.11.1944 Sunk by aircraft at Manila
• 1948 Raised
• 5.09.1952 Repaired; Renamed: California Maru (かりほるにあ丸)
• 26.08.1964 Scrapped at Hirao, Japan