JAPANESE SEAPLANE TENDER
- Brand
- AOSHIMA
- Series
- 1/700 WATER LINE No.560
- Scale
- 1/700
- Release Month
- 2014.11
- Price
- JPY3,080‐(tax included)
- JAN Code
- 4905083-009741
Kamikawa Maru was a seaplane tender in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). The ship was initially completed by Kawasaki as a merchant vessel for the Kawasaki Kisen K. K. Line and on 18 September 1937 the IJN requisitioned it as an aircraft transport ship and it was refitted in 1939 as a seaplane tender. The ship subsequently saw service in the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific Campaign of World War II. Kamikawa Maru was torpedoed and sunk by the submarine USS Scamp on May 29, 1943.
