Standard Merchant Tanker 1TL Class


Builders and Years Completed:	Kawasaki, Kobe Mitsubishi, Nagasaki and Yokohama 1943-1944.
Gross Tonnage:	10,000-tons (nominal).
Dimensions:	526.7' x 65.7’ x 29.10’
Propulsion:	Geared turbine, 9,500 shp, maximum speed 18.5 knots
Oil Cargo Capacity:	100,600 barrels @42 gals/barrel or approx. 13,724-tons of crude oil @7.33 barrels per metric ton
Armament:	Unknown

Standard Merchant Tanker 1TL Class

(Oiler by Takeshi Yuki scanned from "Color Paintings of Japanese Warships")
Beginning in March 1942, the Japanese embarked on a program of construction of merchant vessels such as cargo ships and oilers to be built to standard designs by private yards. Sources vary on the number of these ships completed. Complicating the accounting, some were laid down as 1TLs, but completed as 2TLs. At least nineteen oilers of the 1TL design were completed during the war. Of these, the IJN operated 16 completed in 1943-1944, including AZUSA and SEIYO MARUs.[1]
Notes:
[1] The 19 wartime 1TLs were AMATSU, AZUSA, HAKKO, HAKKO No. 2, HASHIDATE, ISSHIN, KYOKUEI, MIRI, NAMPO, NIPPO, NIYO, OKIKAWA, OMINESAN, OTAKISAN (became CVE), RYOEI, SEIYO, SHIMANE ((became CVE), TAKANE and TOA MARUs.
DAIJYU and TADOTSU MARUs and TENYO MARU No. 2 were completed post war.

Builders
and
Years Completed: Kawasaki, Kobe
Mitsubishi, Nagasaki and Yokohama
1943-1944.

Gross Tonnage: 10,000-tons (nominal).

Dimensions: 526.7' x 65.7’ x 29.10’
Propulsion: Geared turbine, 9,500 shp, maximum speed 18.5 knots
Oil Cargo Capacity: 100,600 barrels @42 gals/barrel
or approx. 13,724-tons of crude oil
@7.33 barrels per metric ton
Armament: Unknown