No.645 Miike Maru launched in 1941

11,739grt for Nippon Yusen KK by Mitsubishi, Nagasaki

Torpedoed by USS Trigger of the Caroline Islands 1944

http://combinedfleet.com/Miike_t.htm

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No.646 launched as the Izumo Maru 1941

27,500 Nippon Yusen by Kawasaki, Kobe

Proposed Japanese ocean-liner of 27,000 tons and 722 feet long. Ordered late 1938, completed as an aircraft carrier in 1942

Hiyō, launched 1941

She was sunk by a US torpedo in the Battle of the Philippine Sea June 1944

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No.647 launched as Kashiwara Maru 1941

24,150grt for Nippon Yusen KK by Mitsubishi, Nagasaki

Completed as aircraft carrier Junyo 1941 Japanese Navy

Torpedoed 1944, hulked & broken up 1947

Japanese aircraft carrier Junyō moored at Sasebo, Japan, in 1945

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No.648 Empire Grace launched in 1941

13,478grt for Ministry of Transport by Harland & Wolff, Belfast

Wairangi 1946 Shaw, Savill & Albion

Ran aground on 14 August 1963 at Kanholmsfjärden. Refloated on 26 August but declared a constructive total loss. Arrived on 25 October 1963 at Faslane for scrapping

Image attribution: M Downes

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No.650 Frederick Funston launched in 1941

11,971grt for US Army from Seattle-Tacoma SB, Tacoma

Scrapped 1969

https://www.navsource.org/archives/10/03/03089.htm

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No.351 Diogenes launched in 1922

12,341grt for Aberdeen Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast

Mataroa 1926 Shaw, Savill & Albion

Scrapped in Faslane 1957

Image attribution: Allan Green Collection & The Alexander Turnbull Library

Mataroa departing Wellington 1957

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No.352 Hakozaki Maru launched in 1922

10,413grt for Nippon Yusen KK from Mitsubishi, Nagasaki

Torpedoed by US submarine off Balao East China Sea 1945

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No.353 Kerguelen launched in 1922

10,017grt for Chargeurs Réunis from Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire, St Nazaire

Chantilly 1923 Messageries Maritimes

Scrapped in Marseille 1952

Image attribution: http://messageries-maritimes.org

1946

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No.354 Aramis launched in 1922

14,825grt for Messageries Maritimes from Chantiers et Ataliers de la Gironde Bordeaux

Numerous problems with its turbines which were replaced by classic triple expansion engines.

Chenonceaux 1925 Messageries Maritimes

First voyage March 11, 1927

Scuttled by the Germans in Marseille in 1944, scrapped in Toulon 1948

Image attribution: P Ramona

http://www.messageries-maritimes.org/chenon.htm

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No.355 Cap Norte launched in 1922

13,615grt for Hamburg-South America Line from Vulcan, Hamburg

Sierra Salvada 1932 North German Lloyd

Cap Norte 1934 Hamburg-South America Line

Empire Trooper 1940 Ministry of Transport

Scrapped Inverkeithing 1955

Image – Hans Flugge.  NDL’s Sierra Salvada was taken in Funchal, Madeira. 

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