Asama-Maru-Class
Prestige Liner Class - Asama Maru-class were Japan's largest pre-war trans-Pacific passenger liners. 2 ships (1929-1930). 16,975 GRT, 583 feet long. 21 knots. Originally luxury liners for San Francisco route. Converted to high-capacity troop transports 1941. Both lost to submarine attack 1944-1945 with catastrophic casualties.
Specifications
- Displacement (std)
- 16975 t
- Displacement (full)
- 16975 t
- Length
- 584 ft
- Beam
- 71.9 ft
- Crew
- 352 (peacetime), 250 (wartime)
- Ships built
- 2
- Commissioned
- 1929-1930 (civilian), 1941 (military service)
- Decommissioned
- 1944-1945 (both lost)
Performance
- Top speed
- 21 kn
- Range
- 14000 at 18 knots
Armament
- Main guns
- None
- Torpedoes
- None
Armor & Systems
- Belt
- None
In-Game
- Tier
- T4
- Game power
- 82.86
- Research cost
- 29,167
- Credit cost
- 58,002
Notable
- Largest Japanese pre-war trans-Pacific liners
- High-speed luxury liner to mass troop carrier
- Diplomatic evacuation ships early war
- Among largest Japanese transport losses (by tonnage and casualties)