11,739grt for Nippon Yusen KK by Mitsubishi, Nagasaki
Torpedoed by USS Trigger of the Caroline Islands 1944
http://combinedfleet.com/Miike_t.htm

11,739grt for Nippon Yusen KK by Mitsubishi, Nagasaki
Torpedoed by USS Trigger of the Caroline Islands 1944
http://combinedfleet.com/Miike_t.htm

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


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


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


11,971grt for US Army from Seattle-Tacoma SB, Tacoma
Scrapped 1969
https://www.navsource.org/archives/10/03/03089.htm




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


10,413grt for Nippon Yusen KK from Mitsubishi, Nagasaki
Torpedoed by US submarine off Balao East China Sea 1945



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.


