An item dated London 17 January referred to the financial editor of the British newspaper Daily Express mentioned the remarkable activities of Japanese buyers on the market of old ships. In the meantime they had bought again several ships including two former Canadian ships both of 8,000 tons and build in 1919, bought for 4,500 pound sterling. Furthermore was the steamship Atlanticos build in 1919 at Vancouver bought. More transactions were to be concluded every moment.(1)
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1. The website http://shipbuildinghistory.com/history/canada/shipsbytype/wwone.htm reported that she was launched on 19 May 1919 at the shipyards of Coughlan J. &Sons Limited of Vancouver, Canada with hull number 7 as the War Cavalry with a gross tonnage of 5,757 tons, the same year renamed Sylvia Victoria, in 1922 Atlanticos, in 1932 Mount Pentelikon, in 1933 Kinshu Maru and torpedoed in 1944.
The website http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?161986 reported that she was steel build and that her triple expansion engine while driven one screw allowed a speed of 11,5 knots. Build for the The Shipping Controller (TSC) of London as the British flagged War Cavalry, between 1919 and 1922 the Canadian flagged Sylvia Victoria of the Forbes Corporation of Montreal, between 1922 and 1922 the Greek flagged Atlanticos of Cosmetto J.A. & Kulukundis Brothers of Panama, between 1932 and 1933 the Panamanian flagged Mount Pentelikon of the Atlanticos S.S. Company Limited of Panama, between 1933 and 1938 the Japanese flagged Kinshu Maru and since 1938 the Kinsyu Maru of Dairen Kisen K.K. of Dairen and finally torpedoed by the US submarine Hake on 17 June 1944 when she was used as a troop transport underway from Palau to Davao on the position 65 miles southeast of Davao, 06°10´N, 126°18´E..
