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Nissyo Maru

Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 6:09 pm
by shipstamps

Japan has a floating exhibition showing her wares to foreign countries although the Japanese exhibition ship Nissyo Maru (also known as the Nissho Maru) is principally displaying a machinery fair. The Nissyo Maru, of 6,256 gross tons, is owned by the Tokyo Sempaku K.K. and was built in 1939 by Mitsubishi Jukogyo. Her dimensions are 417ft. 5in. x 57ft 1 in. x 33ft. 9in. She left Japan for Saigon where she arrived on December 30th 1956, and continued thereafter to Bangkok, Rangoon, Colombo, Bombay, Karachi, Singapore, Djakarta and Manila, returning to Japan in 1957.
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Re: Nissyo Maru

Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 7:57 pm
by aukepalmhof
Built as a cargo vessel under yard No 450 for Nanyo Kaiun KK, Tokyo.
6,526 grt, 4,012 net, 8,675 dwt.
Powered by two geared steamturbines made by builder, hp?, one shaft, speed 13 knots.
July 1939 delivered to owners.

Could not find anything on her war history, but most probably used as a transport.
1950 Sold to Tokyo Senpaku K.K., Tokyo, not renamed.
20 March 1965 she arrived by the breakers yard in Japan where she was scrapped.

Source: Lloyds Registry 1955/56. http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz