Category:Shinkoku Maru (ship, 1940)

Ship[edit]

• Type: Tanker
• Design by:
• Order date:
• Built by: Kawasaki, Kōbe Shipyard
• Yard No: 107
• Keel laid: 25.10.1938
• Launch date: 13.12.1939
• Date of completion: 28.02.1940
• Length over all: 160.2 m
• LPP:152.4 m
• Beam: 19.8 m
• Draught: 11.3 m
• GRT: 10181
• DWT: t
• NET:
• Main engine: 1 × MAN/Kawasaki D8Z-70/120
• Power: 11565 bhp
• Speed: 19.8 kn
• Liquid cargo: m3

History[edit]

• Named: Shinkoku Maru (神国丸); Owned: Kobe Sanbashi (Kobe Pier Co.) K. K.; Flag: Japan
• 18.08.1941 Commissioned in the Imperial Japanese Fleet
• 18.02.1944 Sunk by aircraft at Truk Island