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Name: KIUSHIU MARU
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 22/01/1887
Completed: 1887
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 252
Dimensions: 1847grt, 1437nrt, 267.0 x 35.3 x 23.9ft
Engines: C2cyl (32 & 62 x 39ins), 200nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: n/a
History:
1887 Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo
1890 Renamed SAKATA MARU
16/02/1919 Wrecked
Comments: Vessel ordered with Andrew Leslie & Co
Laid down as LARGO BAY for WJ Affleck & Co, North Shields.
16/02/1919: Wrecked on Iron Island, Kwangtung Peninsula
On a voyage from Ching Wang Tao to Dairen