Category:Nitta Maru (ship, 1940)
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Ship
[edit]- Type: Passenger cargo ship, later converted to escort carrier
- Built by: Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Engineering Co., Nagasaki
- Yard No: 750
- Keel laid: 1938.05.09
- Launched: 1939.05.20
- Completed: 1940.03.23
- Length over all: 170.0 m, as escort carrier 180.2 m
- Beam: 22.5 m
- GT: 17163
- plimsoll.southampton.gov.uk
History
[edit]- 1940 Named Nitta Maru; Flag: Japan
- Call sign: JPGN
- Port: Tokyo
- Owner: Nippon Yusen Kaisha
- 1941.02 Requisitioned as a military transport
- 1941.08 Renamed Chūyō; Flag: Japan
- Converted to escort carrier
- 1941.11.25 Commissioned
- 1943.12.04 Sunk by submarine USS Sailfish
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