Dimensions 257'2" by 42'0" by 20'3"
The Soya was ordered by the Russiansbut requisitioned by the Japanese Navy at the start of the Second World War in 1939. She was completed as an ammunition ship/icebreaker for service in the northernmost reaches of Japan's empire, but ended up serving mostly in the South Seas. She survived the war and had a distinguished postwar career, including as an Antarctic research ship. She is now a museum ship at the Museum of Maritime Science in Tokyo.