Category:Tōei Maru (ship, 1939)

Ship[edit]

• Type: Tanker
• Design by:
• Order date:
• Built by: Kawasaki, Kōbe Shipyard
• Yard No:
• Keel laid: 15.04.1938
• Launch date: 24.10.1938
• Date of completion: 21.02.1939
• Length over all: 160.2 m
• LPP: 152.4 m
• Beam: 19.8 m
• Draught: 11.3 m
• GRT: 10183
• DWT: t
• NET:
• Main engine: 1 × MAN/Kawasaki D8Z-70/120
• Power: 11210 bhp
• Speed: 19.4 kn
• Liquid cargo: m3

History[edit]

• Named: Tōei Maru (東栄丸); Owned: Nitto Kogyo Kisen K.K., Tokyo; Flag: Japan
• 26.12.1940 Commissioned in the Imperial Japanese Fleet
• 18.01.1943 Sunk by USS Silversides (SS-236)