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| Name | Goshū Maru |
| Builder | Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Kōbe |
| Laid down | 27 December 1938 |
| Launched | 14 October 1939 |
| Completed | 27 February 1940 |
| Commissioned | requisitioned 14 September 1940 |
| In service | 27 February 1940 |
| Out of service | 31 March 1944 |
| Stricken | 21 April 1944 |
| Fate | Sunk 30 or 31 March 1944 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 8,592 tons standard |
| Length | 443.2 feet |
| Beam | 60 feet |
| Draft | 40 feet |
| Propulsion | 2 steam turbines |
| Armament | 4.7-inch guns |
Goshū Maru was requisitioned as an aircraft transport vessel of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). The ship was initially built at Kawasaki's Kōbe Shipyard and launched on 14 October 1939 as a merchant vessel for Goyo Shosen K. K.[1] On 14 September 1940 the IJN requisitioned as a transport ship and was refitted in 1940 as an aircraft transport. The ship subsequently saw service in the Pacific CampaignofWorld War II. 1 October, 1943 she was rerated a converted transport (misc). Goshū Maru was sunk by United States Navy aircraft in the Palau Islands on 30 or 31 March 1944.
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