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Call sign JCLA. Owner in 1939 Osakka Syosen K.K., Osaka, Japan. Laid down by Cammell Laird&Co., Birkenhead, England in 1921, launched on 3 September 1921, completed on 21 February 1922, requisitioned by the army on 7 October 1941, became Allotted IJA No. 798, given back to owners on 26 July 1942, again requisitioned by the army as IJA No. 5014 and sunk in an air attack off Cap St. Jacques as part of convoy SHISHA-17 underway from Singapore towards Cap St. Jacques and Saigon, both French Indochina. Gross tonnage 7,194 tons, net tonnage 4,414 tons, deadweight 10,852 tons and as dimensions 451.1 x 56.5 x 35.2 x 10 (light)-28 (loaded) feet. Steam turbine populsion, 1 screw, oil bunker capacity including deep tanks ,250 ton, range 12,800 nautical miles/12,5 knots and speed 12.5 (normal cruising)-14.5 (maximum) knots.
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