| Name: | JAPONICA |
| Type: | Fishing Vessel |
| Launched: | 07/11/1896 |
| Completed: | 11/1896 |
| Builder: | Edwards Brothers |
| Yard: | North Shields |
| Yard Number: | 528 |
| Dimensions: | 145grt, 32nrt, 106.0 x 20.6 x 11.0ft |
| Engines: | T3cyl (12, 18 & 30 x 21ins), 41nhp |
| Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Sunderland |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | 107049 |
| History: | |
| 11/1896 | C Morley & WDG Goff, Waterford (FJ Sellick, manager), Milford |
| 09/03/1903 | Southern Steam Trawling Co Ltd (C Morley), Milford |
| 16/12/1911 | Walter Fulton & John Stewart, Glasgow |
| 20/12/1911 | John Colquhoun, Glasgow |
| 04/12/1914 | Richard Watson Lewis, Aberdeen |
| 05/06/1915 | Sank |
| Comments: | 1896: Allocated fishing registration number M130 at Milford |
| 1914: Allocated fishing registration number A193 at Aberdeen | |
| 05/06/1915: Sank after being captured and shelled by U-Boat U19 | |
| when 45 miles east of Kinnaird Head |