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Tuesday, 5 December 2023

Japanese passenger cargo ship Tango Maru 1905-1942

Built by Mitsubishi Dockyard&Engineering Works, Nagasaki, Japan in April 1905 and lost by an American air attack in the China Sea on 11 March 1942. Call sign JTGD. Gross tonnage 6,893 tons, under deck 5,736 tons, net tonnage 4,238 tons, deadweight 8,300 tons and as dimensions 445.9 x 51.8 x 33.5 x 10 (light)-26.6 (loaded) feet. Reciprocating propulsion, 789 nhp/6,424 ihp, coal bunker capacity 2,361 tons, range 12,000 nautical miles/11 knots, trial speed with 96rpm 15 knots and speed 11 (normal cruising)14 (maximum) knots. 

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