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AMPHIBIOUS SHIPS AND CRAFT
MAYASAN MARU landing craft transports (1942 - 1944), KIBITSU MARU landing craft transports (1943 - 1945), TAKATSU MARU landing craft transport (1944)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate Modification
摩耶山丸 [Mayasan Maru]     Mitsui, Tamano 2.1941 1942 12.1942 sunk 17.11.1944 Mayasan Maru class
玉津丸 [Tamatsu Maru]     Mitsui, Tamano 10.1942 1943 1.1944 sunk 19.8.1944 Mayasan Maru class
日向丸 [Hyuga Maru]     Hitachi, Innoshima 1943 1944 11.1944 sunk 30.5.1945 Kibitsu Maru class
吉備津丸 [Kibitsu Maru]     Hitachi, Innoshima 1942 1943 12.1943 sunk 7.8.1945 Kibitsu Maru class
攝津丸 [Settsu Maru]     Hitachi, Innoshima 1943 1944 1.1945 surrendered 8.1945, sold mercantile 1948 Kibitsu Maru class
時津丸 [Tokitsu Maru]     Hitachi, Innoshima 10.1944 2.5.1946 --- completed mercantile 4.1946 Kibitsu Maru class
高津丸 [Takatsu Maru]     Uraga, Tokyo 1942 1943 1.1944 sunk 10.11.1944 Takatsu Maru


100 - 1000 t displacement/ BRT tonnage vessels


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate Mayasan Maru class 摩耶山丸 [Mayasan Maru]     Mitsui, Tamano 2.1941 1942 12.1942 sunk 17.11.1944 玉津丸 [Tamatsu Maru]     Mitsui, Tamano 10.1942 1943 1.1944 sunk 19.8.1944 Kibitsu Maru class 日向丸 [Hyuga Maru]     Hitachi, Innoshima 1943 1944 11.1944 sunk 30.5.1945 吉備津丸 [Kibitsu Maru]     Hitachi, Innoshima 1942 1943 12.1943 sunk 7.8.1945 攝津丸 [Settsu Maru]     Hitachi, Innoshima 1943 1944 1.1945 surrendered 8.1945, sold mercantile 1948 時津丸 [Tokitsu Maru]     Hitachi, Innoshima 10.1944 2.5.1946 --- completed mercantile 4.1946 Takatsu Maru 高津丸 [Takatsu Maru]     Uraga, Tokyo 1942 1943 1.1944 sunk 10.11.1944

Technical data


Data variantMayasan Maru class Kibitsu Maru class Takatsu Maru
Displacement standard, t7000 8000 5000
Displacement normal, t11910 9500
Displacement full, t --- 12000
Length, m

139.9 pp

142.0 pp 152.5 oa

 
Breadth, m

19.0

19.6

 
Draught, m

7.04

7.00

 
No of shafts

2

2

2

Machinery

2 diesels

2 sets geared steam turbines, 3 water-tube boilers

2 sets geared steam turbines

Power, h. p.

10800

10000

5000

Max speed, kts

20.8

19

17.5

Fuel, tdiesel oil oil oil
Endurance, nm(kts)     
Armament

6 x 1 - 75/44 88-shiki, 20 x 1 - 13.2/76

8 x 1 - 75/44 88-shiki, up to 60 - 25/60 96-shiki

6 x 1 - 75/44 88-shiki

Military load20 Daihatsu landing craft 13 Daihatsu landing craft, 12 Toku-Daihatsu landing craft 20 Daihatsu landing craft
Complement     


Standard scale images


<i>Settsu Maru</i> 1945
Settsu Maru 1945


Project history

Taking into account experience of service of landing ship Shinshu Maru, in 1942 at initiative of Army there have been begun works on conversion of some cargo vessels being in building to amphibious transports - landing craft carriers. Among themselves they differed as ways of landing craft transportation, and their launching. Onboard of Mayasan Maru class ships Daihatsus were stored on an upper deck and launched through special cuts in the stern. On Kibitsu Maru class landing crafts were transported in a special hangar on main deck and went down on railway lines through the stern hatch-gangway port. On Takatsu Maru landing crafts were stored on an upper deck and were handled by cranes.

Modernizations

None

Naval service

Tamatsu Maru was sunk 19.8.1944 by US submarine Spadefish off Luzon. Takatsu Maru was sunk 10.11.1944 by US aircraft in Ormock Bay. Mayasan Maru was sunk 17.11.1944 by US submarine Picuda in East China Sea. Hyuga Maru was lost on a mine 30.5.1945 off Hakata. Kibitsu Maru was lost on a mine 7.8.1945 near Kobe.