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Kumano Maru

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
熊野丸 [Kumano Maru]			Hitachi, Sakurajima	15.8.1944	28.1.1945	30.3.1945	surrendered 15.8.1945, sold 1946

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	8000
Displacement full, t	10500
Length, m	142.0 pp 152.7 oa
Breadth, m	19.6 wl 23.0 fd
Draught, m	7.00
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets geared steam turbines, 4 boilers
Power, h. p.	10000
Max speed, kts	19
Fuel, t	oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	6000(17)
Armament	8 x 1 - 75/44 88-shiki, 6 x 1 - 25/60 96-shiki, up to 37 aircraft (Ki.76 ASW planes, Ka.1 ASW gyroplanes)
Military load	up to 12 17-m Toku Daihatsu and 13 14-m Daihatsu landing craft
Complement

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Aircraft facilities(fd - 2,365m², ha ? m² / ? m³)

 (fd - 2,365m², ha ? m² / ? m³): Flight deck: 110.0x21.5m. There was hangar. There was 1 lift. Aircraft fuel stowage: ?.

Project history

Army landing ship with a flight deck, under the concept repeating Akitsu Maru, but differing by advanced construction. Her design has been developed in 1942 on base of standard cargo vessel of M type (9502BRT). Unlike Akitsu Maru, new landing carrier had flush-deck outline profile and usual hangar, in which Daihatsu type landing crafts (13 crafts) and Army military vehicles also could take places. For discharging of last in an aft part of the ship there was wide gateway and a special ramp.

Flight deck intended only for take-off of aircrafts. Aircrafts were lifted from a hangar by one aft elevator or crane.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service Kumano Maru did not participate in operations and converted to merchant vessel after war.

Kumano Maru did not participate in operations and converted to merchant vessel after war.