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(NY) NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA (N.Y.K.)


                Service to Australia from Japan (via Hong Kong
and Philippines) to Thursday Island, Townsville,
Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.
                Passenger service to Australia started in October, 1896
and ended July, 1941.

                Yamashiro Maru (I) – 2580gt 1884    No image found
England
                  1910 scrapped\

                Omi Maru (I)– 2501gt 1884 England           sln photo Digital Order
                    (sister ship of Yamashiro Maru) No. a638830 am
                    1910 scrapped slv photo am
   Image No. a12731
   (Same photo)
.

Postcard in the auhor's collection

                Kashima Maru – 9898gt 1913 Zosen Photo in "1939-41: The Golden
                    1938 r/n Kasima Maru Age of Japanese Passenger
                    1943 torpedoed and sunk    Liners", editor Kozu Tesu, p. 21
                    by submarine USS Bonefish

                                                      Postcard in the author's collection

                  Kumano Maru – 4698gt 1901 Scotland         sln photo Digital Order
                    1927 lost after collision       No. a638054 uw
slv photo Image
    No. a12752 am



Postcard in the author's collection

                Yawata Maru -3818t 1898 Scotland
                    1934 scrapped

               From "1939-41: The Golden Age of Japanese Passenger Liners"

               Nikko Maru – 5539t 1903 Nagasaki slv 3 photos Image:
                    1945 torpedoed and sunk        No. b42324 am
                    by submarine USS Tirante)        No. b42322 uw
          No.. b42323 uw
slq photo Image
   No. 162570 uw
   Photo in Kozu Tesu,
      op. cit., p.82

From "1939-41: The Golden Age of Japanese Passenger Liner

Yoshino Maru (II) (ex Kleist)* - Photo in Kozu Tesu,
8950t 1907 Danzig       op. cit., p. 61
                    (Built for NDL)
                    1944 torpedoed and sunk by
                    submarines USS Steelhead
                    and USS Parche)


Postcard in the author's collection

              Tango Maru – 6880gtt 1905                       sln 4 photos Digital Order:
Nagasaki   No. a639810 uw
                    1943 stranded, abandoned after    No. a639811 uw
                    further damaged by submarine       (in harbour)
                   attack       No. a639812
       (--811 above coloured)
         No. a639813
   (manoeuvring near dock)
       slv 2 photos Image:
       No. b42327 uw
       No. a12749 am
      Photo in Kosu Tesu,
      op. cit., p.47

Postcard in the author's collection

                 Aki Maru (I) – 6009gt 1903 England    sln photo Digital Order
                  1934 scrapped        No. a636067 uw
      slv (same) photo Image
   No. a12754 uw
      slq photo Image
             No. 128005 uw

          Postcard in the author's collection

                Mishima Maru – 7900gt 1908 Zosen    slv photo Image
                    1934 scrapped No. b42339 uw
       sln photo Digital Order
       No. a638548 uw

            Postcard in the author's collection

  Kamo Maru (I) – 7951gt 1908 Nagasaki    slv photo Image
                    1944 torpedoed and sunk    No.b42332 ut
                    by submarine USS Tinosa        Photo in Kozu Tesu,
           op. cit., p.39

                   Postcard in the author's collection

   Atsuta Maru – 7978gt 1909 Nagasaki - sln photo Frame Order
                    1938 r/n Atuta Maru     No. Home and Away 3393
      (aq Walsh Bay, Sydney)
   slv photo Image
       No. b42326 ut
      slq photo Image
        No.128491
       (Manoevring near dock)
   Photo in Kozu Tesu,
op. cit., p. 40

Postcard in the author's collection

Kaga Maru (I) - 5857gt 1901 Nagasaki sln photo Digital Order
                    1934 scrapped No.a637976 am
               slv (same) photo Image
    No a12729.

            From "1939-41: The Golden Age of Japanese Passenger Liners "

   Kitano Maru - 7951gt 1909 Nagasaki       slv photo Image
                    1942 mined and sunk    No. b42342
Photo in Kozu Tezu,
   op. cit. p. 41

Sources:
1. Ship details for Yoshino Maru from Edwin Dreschsel’s
   “NorddeutscherLloyd, Bremen, 1857-1970” (Cordillera Publishing
                Company, Vancouver, 1994)
2. Details for other ships listed above, are from the N.Y.K. Museum,
Yokohama, and Lloyd’s Register (for gross tonnages)

3. Details of N.Y.K. losses during Word War II from -
www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/nyk.htm
4. "The Golden Age of Japanese Passenger Liners: 1939-41",
editor Kazu Tesu (Kaijinsha Co. Ltd., Tokyo 2004 -
.www.ships-net.co.jp)

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