I draw her in het appearance as lighthouse tender around 1950I
Ordered 18 September 1936 by the Russia as a compensation for the transfer of the North Southern Manchuria Railway to Russia. She was laid down 31 October 1936 at the Kawaminami yard (other source said Koyakajima), launched 16 February 1938 as the Volochaevets (other websites called her Borochavets) but taken over by the yard caused by the disturbed relations between both countries. She was completed 10 June 1948 as a freighter with ice-breaking capacities for the Tatsunan Kisen Co. and renamed Chiryo Maru. In November 1939 purchased by the Imperial Japanese navy as an auxiliary ammunition ship and survey vessel on 20 February 1940 renamed as Soya. In 1949 after being repaired and refitted as a lighthouse tender taken over by the maritime Safety Agency. Became in 1978 part of the Museum of Maritime Science at Tokyo, Japan.
With a measurement of 3,800 tons standard, 2,224 tons BRT and 3,009 tons DW and as dimensions 257’2’ x 42’0” x 2”0’3”. The 1,597 ihp allowed a speed of 12,4 knots. During the war armed with 1-3’ anti aircraft gun, 2-25mm anti aircraft guns and 10 depth charges.
See for more information for in stance at: http://www.combinedfleet.com/Soya_t.htm and http://pwencycl.kgbudge.com/S/o/Soya_class.htm
