In 1927, the passenger-cargo ship OP TEN NOORT was completed in Holland for the Dutch Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij (Royal Packet Steam Navigation Co.) and based in Java, NEI. In 1941, she was requisitioned by the RNN and converted to a hospital ship. In 1942, she was captured by the IJN and renamed TENNO MARU. In 1943, the IJN further remodelled her as a hospital ship and renamed her again as HIKAWA MARU NO. 2. At war's end, she was scuttled off Maizuru under mysterious circumstances.