Dutch cargo-passenger ship Op ten Noort 1927-1942 (Tenno Maru 1942-1944, Hikawa Maru No. 2 1944-1945)

Exhibition Varen voor Vrijheid. Museum Katwijk, Scheveningen

Launched by N.V. Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw-Maatschappij, Amsterdam, Netherlands with yard number 185 on 12 February 1927, delivered to the N.V. Koninklijke Paketvaart, Amsterdam, Netherlands in August 1927, on 19 February 1942 to Surabaya for conversion into a hospital ship, halted by Japanese destroyer Amatuskaze 40 miles south west of Bawean while she was underway to take over survivors of the Dutch Hr.Ms. Java, De Ruyter and Kortenaer, went to Makassar on 8 March, seized by the Japanese on 5 June, departed on 23 November towards Yokohama, Japan, arrived on 5 December and where her crew was interned, commissioned by Japanese as hospital ship Tenno Maru with two funnels, renamed Hikawa Maru No. 2 on 1 November 1944, on 23 August despite the Japanese capitulation on 15 August 1945 scuttled with the use of explosives west of Katshuma, Wakasa Bay.