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JAPAN (1893)
Service dates: 1893-1910
Official number: 102377
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 29.07.1893
- Launched. She grounded in mud but came off at the next high tide.
- 12.09.1893
- Registered.
- 15.09.1893
- Delivered as Japan for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. Named after the island kingdom off the northeast coast of mainland Asia. She left on her maiden voyage the following day, calling at Antwerp, before going to London and thence to Port Said, Suez, Aden, Penang, Singapore, Hong Kong, Woosung, Amoy and return.
- 23.02. 1897
- Picked up a boat under the Second Officer of the Orient Line steamer Orotava which had run aground in the Red Sea, carrying him and his boat to Perim to report the incident and obtain lighters.
- 16.10.1898
- Struck on the port bow by the British steamer St Ronans in the Scheldt. Japan suffered damage to some plates and deck gear, and hit a pier on the right bank of the river. A saloon waiter received head injuries from which he died in hospital. Japan was dry-docked in Antwerp for 8 days.
- 1908
- Ran aground in the Scheldt in fog.
- 1910
- Laid up in Victoria Docks, London.
- 01.1910
- Deadweight 5,937 tons. Draught 7.859m (25ft 9½in)
- 11.1910
- Sold for £8,500 to Kishimoto Kisen Kabushiki Kaisha, Japan, and renamed Shimpo Maru.
- 04.1919
- Extensively damaged by fire at Marseilles.
- 1921
- Sold to Schroder, Holken & Fischer, Germany, and renamed Walter Holken.
- 1923
- Sold to Belgian shipbreakers.
- 01.12.1923
- Arrived at Antwerp.