Official number 18858. Call sign JHHD. Gross tonnage `10.413 tons, tonnage under deck 8.392 tons, net tonnage 6,310 tons and as dimensions 405.0 x 62.0 x 37.0 feet. Nine watertight bulkheads. Originally strengthened for gun mounts. Coal bunker capacity 2.100 tons allowing a speed pf 14,5 knots a range of 10.000 nautical miles. Laid down by Mitsubishi Zosen Kaisha Ld., Nagasaki, Japan on 16 December 1920, launched on 2 March 1922, completed on 1 June 1922 and owned by Nippon Yusen KK, Tokyo, Japan. Requisitioned by the Japanese Imperial Navy on 11 December 1940, registered as start conversion as a harbor affair vessel om 16 December 1940 (fitted out with 2-8cm.40 HA Type 3 deck guns, 2-1,3cm Type 93 machine guns, 1-90cm searchlight and 1-2,5m rangefinder), rerated as auxiliary transport on 10 March 1942 and torpedoed by the American submarine USS Balao (SS-285) and sunk 225 miles north north east of Shanghai, China on 19 March 1945.
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