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Ordered in 1938 with building costs subsided by Imperial Navy as she was designed for a conversion into an aircraft carrier. Launched by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Shipyard on 9 December 1938, completed on 31 May 1939, sold to the Japanese navy on 9 December 1942, converted into an aircraft carrier, commissioned on 23 November 1943, heavily damaged by several allied air attacks and finally abandoned in the Beppu Bay, stricken on 20 November 1945 and in situ broken up between 1 September 1946 and 30 January 1948. Already designed to be converted into an aircraft carrier. Gross register tonnage 12.753 tons, deadweight 8.200 tons and as dimensions 516 x (waterline)-545 (over all) x 69 x 29 (loaded) feet. Speed 29 (normal cruising)-22 (maximum) knots. Twin screw. Diesel machinery supplying 16.500 bhp/2.080 nhp.
Her sister ship the Brasil Maru was torpedoed and sunk by the American submarine USS Greenlings (SS-213) when underway from Truk towards Yokosuka around 130 nautical miles north west of Truk. She was underway for her conversion into an escort carrier.
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