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YAMASHIRO MARU
Shipyard:
Keel Laid:
19. Aug., 1944
Launched:
14. Nov., 1944
Entered service:
27. Dec., 1945
CHIGUSA MARU
Shipyard:
Keel Laid:
14. Sep., 1944
Launched:
29. Nov., 1944
Entered service:

Builded as tankers type 2 TL.
Displacement: 15,864 t
Complement: 221
Length: 157,5m
Beam: 20,4m
Draught: 9m
Flight deck: 125x23m
Aircraft: 8
Speed: 15 knots
Guns:
16 - 25mm
Machinery: turbine, 2 Boilers, 1 shaft,
S.H.P 4500

Yamashiro Maru - 17. Feb. 1945 sunk bu US aircrafts in Yokoshuka. Scrapped in 1947.
Otakisan Maru - never finished as aircraft carrier, after ww2 - 1949 finished as tanker.



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