Japanese passenger steamship Rusimi Maru underway via Ireland, Engeland and USA back to Japan in October 1940

In his letter dated Lisbon dated 3 November 1940 No. 890 to the Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine wrote the German Marineattaché Portugal that according to the newspaper Diario da Manha, Lisbon dated 30 October the Japanese passenger steamship Rusimi Maru left with 31 passengers on board for Ireland to pick up there the Japanese returning from England and would via North America return to Japan.

Source

Bundesarchiv. German Marineattaché Portugal. RM 11-16