Call sign JQAB. Gross tonnage 5.612 tons, under deck 5.210 tons, net tonnage 3.515 tons and as dimensions 405.0 x 55.0 x 32.0 x 8 (light)-25.6 (loaded) feet. Built by Mitsubishi Zosen Kaisen Ltd., Nagasaki, Japan for Mitsubishi Shoji Kaisha Ltd., Tokyo, Japan. Laid down on 20 January 1927, launched on 30 June 1927, completed on 30 June 1927, converted from steam into oil fuelled diesel machinery in 1930, requisitioned by the Imperial Japanese Navy on 21 July 1941 and became the No. 756, converted into am auxiliary aeronautical repair ship at Mitsubishi, Shimonoseki between 3 September-25 October 1941 and sunk during an Allied air attack in the Coron Bay, Busuanga Island, Palawan, Philippines on 24 September 1944. Oil fuelled diesel machinery supplying via a single screw 582 nhp/2.350 bhp allowing a speed of 10.5 (normal)-13 (maximum) knots. With a oil bunker capacity including deep tanks of 1.788 tons and 10.5 knots speed a range of 40.000 nautical miles. Designed as lumber carrier.
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