 Hashidate Maru

The IJN Hashidate Maru was a Japanese Standard Merchant 1TL tanker built by Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation for Nippon Kaiyo Gyogyo K. K. It was built at Kobe, Japan and commissioned on 31 October 1944 to support the war effort by transporting oil, and was later refitted as a whaling factory ship.On 15 January 1945, while the "Hashidate Maru" was docked at the Hong Kong port, an American carrier aircraft began attacks that caused light damage to the oil tanker.