Shinano Maru

Japanese: 信濃丸 - しなのまる
Shinano Maru

A cargo-passenger ship belonging to Nippon Yusen, completed in Glasgow, England in 1900 (Meiji 33), and sailed to Japan in August of the same year. 6,388 gross tons, 238 passenger capacity, triple-engine reciprocating engine. It was in service on the North American route, but when the Russo-Japanese War broke out in 1904, it participated in the war as a military ship and then as a disguised cruiser. In the early hours of May 27, 1905, it spotted the hospital ship Alyor, part of the Russian Baltic Fleet, approaching the Tsushima Strait on its way to Vladivostok, and sent the first report of "enemy ships sighted" to the Combined Fleet. It then continued to report the movements of the enemy fleet, which led to the great victory in the Battle of Tsushima. It later transferred to Kinkai Yusen, and then became a Kani Kosen, and was active as a transport ship during World War II and as a repatriation ship after the war until 1951 (Showa 26).

[Torao Shigezai]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

日本郵船所属の貨客船で、1900年(明治33)イギリスのグラスゴーで竣工(しゅんこう)、同年8月日本に回航された。6388総トン、船客定員238人、主機三連成レシプロ。北アメリカ航路に就航していたが、04年日露戦争勃発(ぼっぱつ)とともに陸軍御用船、ついで仮装巡洋艦として参戦。翌05年5月27日未明、ウラジオストクに向かって対馬(つしま)海峡に差しかかったロシアのバルチック艦隊の一部、病院船アリヨールを発見し、「敵艦見ゆ」の第一報を連合艦隊に打電、続いて敵艦隊の動向を通報し続け、日本海海戦の大勝利へのきっかけをつくった。のち、近海郵船に所属を変え、その後さらに蟹(かに)工船となり、第二次世界大戦中は輸送船、戦後は引揚船として51年(昭和26)まで活躍した。

[茂在寅男]

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