S.S. SUWA MARU

Farbige Bildpostkarte der S.S. SUWA MARU, 10.700 Tons, N.Y.K. Line

leichte Gebrauchsspuren, rücksewitig von 1939 beschrieben.

(Japanese passenger/cargo ship owned by Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK). The ship was launched in 1914 by Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. at Nagasaki, Japan. The ship was named for the Suwa Jinja, a noted Shinto shrine located in Suwa, Nagano.^[1] In July 1941 the ship was taken into military service, and after being struck by torpedoes was beached on Wake island in the Pacific in 1943.  WIKI)