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Compendium of the World’s Passenger Ships
My blog contains mini-histories and photos of 2170 ships loaded in a random order. But FOR JUST £20 you can have a pdf copy of my database in launch date order. It is a data listing of liners, ferries, cruise and troop ships; every passenger carrying ship over 10000 tons dating from 1858 to the newbuilds of today. I will also provide an excel spreadsheet of links against every ship which will either take you to more detailed sites for past ships, the Marine Traffic page for the current vessel and to my blog for the photos. For the latest copy of both files, please email me at don.hazeldine@btinternet.com
Tag Archives: Nippon Yusen KK
No.655 Aki Maru launched in 1942
11,409grt for Nippon Yusen KK by Mitsubishi, Nagasaki Torpedoed by US submarine Trigger off Luzon 1944 Image attribution: Ueda Kihachiro
Posted in Japanese, Navy Ship, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Aki Maru, Luzon, Mitsubishi, Nagasaki, Nippon Yusen KK, USS Trigger
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No.661 Awa Maru launched in 1942
11,249grt for Nippon Yusen KK by Mitsubishi, Nagasaki Torpedoed by USS Queenfish in the Pacific 1945
Posted in Hospital ship, Japanese, Navy Ship, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Awa Maru, Mitsubishi, Nagasaki, Nippon Yusen KK, torpedoed, USS Queenfish
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No.1260 Blue Zephyr launched in 1990
12,500GT for Nippon Yusen Kaisha by Kanda Zosen KK, Kawajiri IMO: 8902357 Tian Ren 1999 Jinchon Ferry Scrapped Chittagong, arrived 30 Oct 2020 Image from smp via Marine Traffic
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Tagged Blue Zephyr, Chittagong, IMO: 8902357, Kanda Zosensho KK, Kawajiri, Nippon Yusen KK, Tian Ren
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No.382 Hakusan Maru launched in 1923
10,380grt for Nippon Yusen KK from Mitsubishi, Nagasaki Torpedoed by US submarine Flier off Iwojima 1944
Posted in Japanese, Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo, troopship
Tagged Hakusan Maru, Iwojima, Mitsubishi, Nagasaki, Nippon Yusen KK, USS Flier
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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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Tagged Caroline Islands, Miike Maru, Mitsubishi, Nagasak, Nippon Yusen KK, USS Trigger
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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
Posted in Japanese, Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger ship
Tagged aircraft carrier, Junyo, Kashiwara Maru, Mitsubishi, Nagasaki, Nippon Yusen KK, torpedoed
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No.332 Hakone Maru launched in 1921
10,423grt for Nippon Yusen KK from Mitsubishi, Nagasaki Bombed off Formosa 1943
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Tagged Formosa, Hakone Maru, Mitsubishi, Nagasaki, Nippon Yusen KK, Taiwan
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No.341 Haruna Maru launched in 1921
10,421grt for Nippon Yusen KK from Mitsubishi, Nagasaki Stranded off Surga Bay 1942
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Tagged Haruna Maru, Mitsubishi, Nagasaki, Nippon Yusen KK, Surga Bay
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No.629 Nitta Maru launched in 1939
17,150grt for Nippon Yusen KK from Mitsubishi, Nagasaki Chuyo 1942 an aircraft carrier with the Japanese Navy Torpedoed by US submarine Sailfish 1943 Nitta Maru as she pulls into Pier 8 in Honolulu harbor on May 26, 1940 From Rich … Continue reading
Posted in Japanese, Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged aircraft carrier, Chuyp, Mitsubishi, Nagasaki, Nippon Yusen KK, Nitta Maru, Sailfish
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No.244 Suwa Maru launched in 1914
10,927grt for Nippon Yusen KK from Mitsubishi, Nagasaki Torpedoed Wake Island Pacific 1943 Image attribution: http://combinedfleet.com Suwa Maru in Singapore in the 1930s whilst the Empress of Britain was on her World Cruise Suwa Maru at Wake Island