SS Hitachi Maru (1898)

History
Hitachi Maru between 1898 and 1904
Japan
Name	Hitachi Maru
Owner	NYK
Builder	Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Engineering Co., Nagasaki
Yard number	99
Laid down	21 December 1896
Launched	16 April 1898
Commissioned	16 August 1898
Homeport	Tokyo
Identification	Japanese official number 2331 code letters HNST
Fate	Scuttled, 15 June 1904
General characteristics
Type	Passenger cargo Ship
Tonnage	6,172 GRT 3,827 NRT
Length	445 ft 0 in (135.64 m)
Beam	49 ft 4 in (15.04 m)
Depth	30 ft 5 in (9.27 m)
Installed power	549 NHP
Propulsion	2 × Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. 3-cylinder triple expansion 2 × propellers
Speed	14.2 knots (26.3 km/h; 16.3 mph)
Capacity	24 first class 20 second class 116 third class

Hitachi Maru (常陸丸) was a 6,172 gross register tons (GRT) combined passenger-cargo ship built by Mitsubishi Shipbuilding in Nagasaki, for NYK Lines in 1898. She was requisitioned in 1904 by the Imperial Japanese Army during the Russo-Japanese War.