Hikawa Maru
1945
(H&B HB-18a)
- Class: Merchant conversion to hospital ship of 1941
- Displacement: 11,621 tons
- Dimensions: 536 x 66 x 30 ft.
- Machinery: Diesel engine, twin screw, 11,000 BHP = 17 knots
- Complement:
- Builder: Yokohama Dock Co Ltd, Yokohama, Japan, 1930
- Notes: Built for Nippon Yusen KK, Tokyo. Accommodations for 76 first class, 69 tourist class, 186 third class. Maiden voyage 13 May 1930 Kobe-Seattle. Hong Kong-Seattle service. Requisitioned as hospital ship 1941. Captured Aug 1945 and employed as repatriation transport until returned to NYK in 1947. Re-entered trans-Pacific service in 1950 after overhaul and modernization. Scrapped in 1961.
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