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Well, you might have seen all the Imperial Japanese Navy submarines ... this submarine and her sisters were operated by the Imperial Japanese Army! They were not warships, and are not armed beyond the 37mm deck gun; they are the mysterious Maru-Yu class submarine transport. They were used to smuggle goods through dangerous waters to island garrisons... and are very hard to find details on. I know there is an article in Warships International (3rd Qtr of 1999) that has an article on them, but I can find precious little else about them!

After the post by WhyMe and his additional pics, I managed to go through and pick out a few more details, get the cranes to look right and put them in the right places, change the wires a bit, and make a few other general changes that get things looking more accurate. So, a special THANK YOU to WhyMe on this one- because I had looked straight at those darn cranes in all four of my pics and never recognized what they were!

Here's the final version, and accurately labeled as Yu-03, as she would have looked in service in 1943 (after capture, she was displayed at Mare Island Shipyard during June and July of 1945).

Outstanding! I'm glad I could help

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Worklist: Portuguese Navy and Barnegat class seaplane tenders

Nice work on another of those lesser-known vessels.

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Agreed! Nice work!

-Matt

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MS State Guard - 08 March 2014 - 28 January 2023

The Official IJN Ships & Planes List

#FJB

Another small contribution, the four Kaiten I could find.

Nice job. Although I've already done the first two: http://shipbucket.com/Real%20Designs/Japan/SSKaiten.png

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Worklist: Portuguese Navy and Barnegat class seaplane tenders

Sorry... missed that.
Whoops.
Not much difference between the Type 2 and Type 4... at least the Type 10 hadn't been done.