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Tuesday, 25 May 2021

Japanese twin screw steam cable ship Osagawa Maru 1906-1945

Call sign JOGD. Built by Mitsubishi Dockyard&Engineering Works, Nagasaki, Japan in 1906. Of the Department of communication, Tokyo, Japan. Gross tonnage 1.404 tons, under deck 1.282 tons, net tonnage 600 tons and as dimensions 243.2 x 34.0 x 22.3 x 16.5 (loaded) feet. 2x3 Cylinder coal fuelled reciprocating steam engines with 176 nhp engines. Torpedoed by the Russian submarine L-2 off the west coast of Hokkaido, Japan on 22 August 1945.

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