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What ship ...? - 1/22/2018 8:13:18 PM

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What was the name of the ship as pictured and what was it's name and function during the Pacific War?

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RE: What ship ...? - 1/22/2018 8:38:41 PM

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Hikawa Maru or a sister before conversion? xAP.

On further review, probably not....

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RE: What ship ...? - 1/22/2018 8:51:25 PM

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Hikawa Maru

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ORIGINAL: Mark VII

Hikawa Maru or a sister before conversion? xAP.

On further review, probably not....

The funnel of the HM was further astern...

Klink, Oberst

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RE: What ship ...? - 1/22/2018 8:54:34 PM

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Hikawa Maru

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Hikawa Maru or a sister before conversion? xAP.

On further review, probably not....

The funnel of the HM was further astern...

Klink, Oberst

The bridge structure is also different, stacked higher and extended to the edge of the superstructure.

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RE: What ship ...? - 1/22/2018 8:55:13 PM

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How about the Kasuga Maru, xAP. Soon to become CVE Taiyō?

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RE: What ship ...? - 1/22/2018 8:55:39 PM

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ORIGINAL: Mark VII

How about the Kasuga Maru, xAP. Soon to become CVE Taiyō?

Nope

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RE: What ship ...? - 1/22/2018 10:46:18 PM

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It's function was to hang on a wall.

Kashiwara Maru or Izumo Maru

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RE: What ship ...? - 1/23/2018 1:06:27 AM

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It's function was to hang on a wall.

Kashiwara Maru or Izumo Maru

Haha!

Nope

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RE: What ship ...? - 1/23/2018 12:26:00 PM

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Ship: Circassia (Anchor Line)?
Function: AMC

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RE: What ship ...? - 1/23/2018 1:38:20 PM

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ORIGINAL: Saltcreep

Ship: Circassia (Anchor Line)?
Function: AMC

It's not Circassia, no, but a very similar looking ship.

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RE: What ship ...? - 1/23/2018 1:56:54 PM

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Here is another actual pic of the ship.

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RE: What ship ...? - 1/23/2018 2:45:24 PM

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OK, methinks this may not be originally be allied, or Japanese. I found some Canadian ships similar, but not with this stack. Further investigation finds it to be either the Bremen or the Europa. And I will go with Europa, as she was seized by the allies.

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RE: What ship ...? - 1/23/2018 3:31:13 PM

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Interesting posts. Where on earth do you find this info.

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RE: What ship ...? - 1/23/2018 4:30:03 PM

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Damn, this one was not easy. Had some big guns namesake too )

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RE: What ship ...? - 1/23/2018 5:45:09 PM

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Building on what Lecivius said I'm guessing a German Norddeutscher Lloyd ship. Either the liner Scharnhorst, Gneisenau or Potsdam? Don't know if there is any way of telling the two apart.

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Oh, right, you talked about its function in the Pacific War so that'd be Scharnhorst, later the Japanese carrier Shin'yō.

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RE: What ship ...? - 1/23/2018 9:05:46 PM

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ORIGINAL: cardas

Building on what Lecivius said I'm guessing a German Norddeutscher Lloyd ship. Either the liner Scharnhorst, Gneisenau or Potsdam? Don't know if there is any way of telling the two apart.

Edit:
Oh, right, you talked about its function in the Pacific War so that'd be Scharnhorst, later the Japanese carrier Shin'yō.

Bingo!!

Nice work gents. It is the SS Scharnhorst launched in 1937 and travelling Asian routes from Germany. She was in Kure, Japan when war broke out in 1939 and later, in 42, was bought and began conversion to the CVE Shin'yo.

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RE: What ship ...? - 1/25/2018 5:51:25 PM

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At the end of the war in Europe, my dad was an officer with the 29th I.D. and part of the "occupation army" stationed in Bremerhaven.
As one of the "victors", he acquired some silverware from the "NDL" line, (as mentioned above), with the pieces marked as such.
For years as a child, my brother and I held "wienies" on those forks and heated them over the kitchen stove, never realizing the cost silver would become one day...nor the risks dad went thru to get to Bremerhaven from Omaha Beach.