As passenger-cargo ship Fulda, call sign DOBS, Germany-flagged, homeport Bremen, dimensions 458.8 x 57.6-62.3 x 31.3 x 29 (loaded) feet, deadweight 9,0000 tons, gross tonnage 7,744 tons, under deck 6,840 tons and net tonnage 4,138 tons. Diesel propulsion, 2 screws, 1,493 nhp and normal cruising speed 13 knots. Laid down by Act. Gesellshaft Weser, Bremen in 1923, launched on 12 August 1924, delivered on 30 November 1924, rebuilt as a cargo ship in 1935, sold to Japanese state owned Teikoku Senpaku on 13 August 1940, renamed Teiko Mar on 13 August 1940, renamed Teikai Maru on 13 December 1940, allocated to the army on 9 Feburary 1941 as No. 37, converted into a communication ship completed on 25 March 1941, requisitioned by the army as troop transport No. 804 on 5 December 1941, set on fire during an aircraft attack north of Santiago Cove, Luzon, Phillipines and run aground o 30 December 1944.
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