SS Hatarana
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SS Hatarana was a cargo steamship that was built as part of an emergency shipbuilding programme during the First World War, and sunk without loss of life in the Battle of the Atlantic during the Second World War. She was built as War Sailor, one of a batch of cargo ships that the United Kingdom ordered from Japanese shipyards. She was renamed Hatarana in 1919 when she changed owners.
War Sailor
Japan had been a military ally of the UK since 1902, and joined the First World War on the Allied side in August 1914. In 1917 British shipping companies, on behalf of the UK Shipping Controller, ordered 20 cargo ships from Japanese shipyards, built to standard designs. The largest batch was 12 ships that Furness, Withy & Co ordered from Kawasaki Dockyard in Kobe. Two of this batch were built to a design of large, twin-screw cargo ship called the "T" type. Kawasaki completed War Soldier in June 1917, followed by War Sailor that August.
War Sailor's registered length was 445.0 ft (135.6 m), her beam was 58.3 ft (17.8 m), her depth was 31.3 ft (9.5 m), and her draught was 26 ft 5 in (8.05 m). Her tonnages were 7,522 GRT, 4,592 NRT, and 10,400 DWT. Each of her screws was driven by a Kawasaki three-cylinder triple-expansion engine.
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