Aikoku Maru class


Year Completed:	1936
Displacement:	7,387-tons.
Dimensions:	Length 462', beam 62.3', draft 27.7'
Propulsion:	1 Mitsubishi-Sulzer diesel, 1 shaft, 8,000 shp, 19 knots.
Armament:	5 x 152-mm (6-inch), guns, one 76-mm (3-inch) AA gun and two 7.7-mm MGs.

Akagi Maru Class

(Hokoku Maru by Takeshi Yuki scanned from "Color Paintings of Japanese Warships")
In 1941, the passenger-cargo ship AKAGI MARU was requisitioned from the Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) Line by the IJN and converted to an armed merchant cruiser at Mitsubishi's Nagasaki shipyard. She was rerated a transport in 1943 and sunk at Truk in 1944.

Year Completed: 1936

Displacement: 7,387-tons.

Dimensions: Length 462', beam 62.3', draft 27.7'
Propulsion: 1 Mitsubishi-Sulzer diesel, 1 shaft, 8,000 shp, 19 knots.

Armament: 5 x 152-mm (6-inch), guns, one 76-mm (3-inch) AA gun and two 7.7-mm MGs.