Around 30 built included the below mentioned. It was posisble that some ships had the engines amidships. There were two new ships with a pronunced hull shape sighted which could be part of this type. Gross tonnage 4,400 tons, loaded displacement 7,100 tons, dimensions around 410 (over all) x ? x 24.3 (loaded) feet. Steam turbine propulsion, 2,400 ship and normal cruising speed 12 knots. Fitted out with 6-5 tons cargo booms, 4-10 tons cargo booms and 1-30 tons cargo boom. Between brackets tons. Anbo Maru (4,523)-Bichu Maru (4,667)-Bizen Maru (4,667)-Chiyo Maru (4,700)-Fujishima Maru (4,930)-Kokuyo Maru (4,667)-Konan Maru No.1 (4,823)-Sainei Maru (4,916)-Sankisan Maru (4,776)-Shiranesan Maru (4,739)-Shiroganesan Maru (4,739)-Shoun Maru (4,300)-Shoyu Maru (4,408)-Tatebe Maru (4,519)-Toyu Maru (4,532)-Yamamiya Maru (4,440)-Yukigawa Maru (4,502).
Source
Standard classes of Japanese merchant ships. ONI 208-J (Revised) supplement 3. Division of Naval Intelligence, January 1945.
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