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Originally Posted by LouCoatney
I have our USN Office of Naval Intelligence wartime recognition manual for Japanese merchant vessels and really should do a freighter, tanker, and transport as well. Paying so much for plastic kits of merchant ships is disagreeable.
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The ONI set of drawings for Japanese merchant vessels is very basic and lacking the same level of details seen on the ONI drawings for Allied vessels. You might want to check out
this section with Japanese merchant vessels of my Ship Design Drawings collection on the Webarchive.
Here you'll find 25 sets of drawings of 1920's and 1930's Japanese merchant vessels, and during WW2 about 95% of those vessels were used by the Japanese Navy or Army as tender (for submarines, destroyers or seaplanes), armed merchant cruiser, transport or hospital ship
Sample: Heian Maru, ex ocean liner, sunk as submarine tender in Truk Lagoon
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Originally Posted by LouCoatney
I wonder if they converted tankers into fleet oilers like we did.
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Yes they did, check out the
Kawasaki Type tanker
The Japanese even converted tankers to dry cargo vessels......