SS Op Ten Noort

Op Ten Noort as a passenger ship
History
Name	1927: Op Ten Noort 1942: Tenno Maru 1945: Hikawa Maru No.2
Namesake	Laurens op Ten Noort Emperor Circle Hikawa Shrine
Owner	Koninklijke Paketvaart-Mij
Operator	1927: Koninklijke Paketvaart-Mij 1942: Royal Netherlands Navy 1942: Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha 1942: Imperial Japanese Navy
Port of registry	1927: Batavia 1942: Tokyo
Route	Dutch East Indies
Builder	Nederlandsche SM, Amsterdam
Yard number	185
Launched	February 12, 1927
Completed	November 9, 1927
Commissioned	February 14, 1942 as hospital ship
Reclassified	1942, as hospital ship
Identification	code letters TFCQ (until 1933) call sign PKEA (1934 onward)
Captured	February 28, 1942
Fate	scuttled August 17, 1945
General characteristics
Type	passenger ship
Tonnage	6,076 GRT, 3,566 NRT, 4,430 DWT
Displacement	6,076 long tons (6,174 t)
Length	424.5 ft (129.4 m)
Beam	55.2 ft (16.8 m)
Depth	22.2 ft (6.8 m)
Decks	3
Installed power	616 NHP, 6,000 ihp (4,500 kW)
Propulsion	2 × screws 2 × Lentz compound engines
Speed	15 kn (28 km/h)
Boats & landing craft carried	12 × lifeboats 2 × dinghies
Capacity	passengers: 131 × 1st class, 52 × 2nd class, 2,457 × deck cargo: 189,305 cu ft (5,360.5 m3) bale
Crew	162
Notes	sister ship: Plancius

SS Op Ten Noort was a passenger steamship that was launched in the Netherlands in 1927. She was built for the Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij (KPM, the "Royal Packet Navigation Company"), who operated her in the Dutch East Indies. Op Ten Noort was named after the founder of KPM, Laurens op ten Noort.

In 1941, the Royal Netherlands Navy requisitioned her to be converted into a hospital ship. In 1942 Japan captured her and renamed her Tenno Maru. In 1944 she was renamed Hikawa Maru No.2. She was scuttled just after the surrender of Japan in 1945.