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Tuesday 25 October 2022

Japanese screw steam trawler Himeshima Maru 1927->1948

Gross tonnage 274 tons, under deck 240 tons, net tonnage 102 tons and as dimensions 130.0 (waterline) x 23.5 x 13.2 feet. Listed as a so-called XAM (=merchant ship converted into a mine-sweeper). Call sign JXLB, official number 32612. Laid down by Mitsubishi Zosen Nagasaki Zozensho for Nippon Suisen, Tokyo on 21 June 1927, launched on 27 September 1927, completed on 31 October 1927, requisitioned by the Imperial Japanese Navy on 1 December 1941, converted into an auxiliary minesweeper, stricken from the Navy List on 10 January 1946, returned to her owner and in 1947-1948 still active, final fate unknown.

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