Hashidate Maru

History
Japanese FlagJapan
NameHashidate Maru
OperatorNippon Kaiyo Gyogyo K. K.
Port of registryJapan
BuilderKawasaki Shipbuilding
Laid down10 May 1944
Launched17 September 1944[1]
CommissionedNovember 1944
In service1944 - 1965
FateSold for scrap in 1965
General characteristics
Type
  • Standard Merchant 1TL tanker (1944)
  • Converted to whaling factory ship (1946)
  • Converted back to oil tanker (1951)
Tonnage10,896 gross register tons (GRT)
Speed

The IJN Hashidate Maru was a Japanese Standard Merchant 1TL tanker built by Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation for Nippon Kaiyo Gyogyo K. K. It was built at Kobe, Japan and commissioned on 31 October 1944 to support the war effort by transporting oil, and was later refitted as a whaling factory ship.[1][2]

  1. ^ a b Hackett, Bob; Cundall, Peter (2008). "Japanese Oilers - Hasidate Maru". Retrieved 2014-04-01.
  2. ^ Kawamura, Akito (1980). "Chronological Notes on the Commissioned Japanese Whaling Factory Ships" (PDF). Bull. Faculty of Fisheries, Hokkaido University. 31 (2): 184–190. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 11 February 2014.