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shinano maru 1900 wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 early civilian service 2 battle of tsushima 3 post war civilian service 4 notes 5 references 6 external links toggle the table of contents shinano maru 1900 3 languages فارسی 日本語 한국어 edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikimedia commons wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia scrapped japanese merchant ship shinano maru in 1905 history empire of japan name shinano maru ordered 1904 fiscal year builder w henderson co glasgow launched 31 january 1900 completed april 1900 stricken 1951 fate scrapped general characteristics displacement 6 388 long tons 6 491 t length 135 635 m 445 ft 0 in w l beam 14 996 m 49 ft 2 4 in draught 7 89 m 25 ft 11 in propulsion 2 triple expansion steam engines 5 144 shp 3 836 kw speed 15 4 knots 28 5 km h 17 7 mph complement 238 armament 2 6 in 152 mm guns shinano maru 信濃丸 was a 6 388 grt merchantman operated by the nippon yusen k k shipping company nyk she was built by w henderson co in glasgow for the express purpose of serving nyk s japan to seattle route nyk originally intended that she be built at the mitsubishi nagasaki shipyards in japan however mitsubishi had experienced problems in the completion of hitachi maru which had led to considerable delays nyk chose not to wait and shinano maru was ordered to scotland she was completed in april 1900 during the russo japanese war shinano maru was converted into an armed merchantman she has the distinction of discovering the russian fleet near tsushima strait on the eve of the battle of tsushima after the war shinano maru reverted to civilian use being scrapped in 1951 early civilian service edit shinano maru with a length of 135 6 metres 444 ft 11 in was designed to carry 238 passenger 26 first class 20 second class 193 third class and her accommodations were regarded as modern and comfortable at the time of her completion initially shinano maru was placed in service on nippon yusen routes between australia and japan 1 later in her early service with nippon yusen shinano maru was reassigned to north pacific routes to north america making regular voyages between yokohama and seattle she was involved in a collision off victoria british columbia with the ss empress of japan on june 3 1902 the novelist kafū nagai was a passenger in 1903 battle of tsushima edit with the start of the russo japanese war in february 1904 shinano maru was one of the first ships requisitioned by the imperial japanese army for use as a troopship and military transport to convey troops and supplies to korea and manchuria in march 1905 2 shinano maru was armed and converted into an auxiliary cruiser at kure naval arsenal mounting two 6 inch 152 mm guns one fore and one aft and was commissioned into the imperial japanese navy under the command of captain morikawa 3 shortly before the battle of tsushima she was assigned to the auxiliary squadron of the combined fleet along with six other armed merchantmen and three torpedo boat tenders 4 assigned to patrols of the tsushima strait to search for the russian baltic fleet which had been dispatched around the world to relieve the japanese blockade of port arthur on the night of may 26 27 shinano maru america maru sado maru and manshu maru were deployed as a lookout screen in the strait between gotō islands and jeju do 5 at 2 45 shinano maru sighted a suspicious ship but the rising moon prevented proper identification 3 shinano maru steamed ahead and properly sighted the opponent at 4 30 3 it was an apparently unarmed hospital ship communicating signals to other enemy ships invisible in the morning haze 3 the sighted ship turned out to be the russian hospital transport orel 6 the rest of the russian fleet had already sailed past orel undetected by the japanese 3 morikawa settled to search and seize orel and closed in only to notice half a dozen other russian ships nearby 7 he fled the scene and broadcast the report of the sighting on the wireless 7 however grid coordinates reported by shinano maru were incorrect by 10 to 20 miles 16 to 32 km owing either to morikawa s errors in dead reckoning or to his misunderstanding of orel s position in the russian order of battle 7 the japanese third squadron hurried to the grid square reported by morikawa but could not find the trace of the enemy 8 at 6 05 shinano maru reestablished visual contact with the russian fleet and continued shadowing it at 4 to 5 miles 6 4 to 8 0 km distance 7 russian officers advised admiral zinovy rozhestvensky to interfere but rozhestvensky refused insisting on continuing his course in strict radio silence 8 at 6 40 shinano maru was relieved by the japanese cruiser izumi 9 confusion caused by morikawa s first report was resolved and now the combined fleet had precise information on the russian advance 10 this intelligence ultimately led to the decisive battle of tsushima in the aftermath of the battle shinano maru and dainan maru located the sinking sissoi veliky and forced the captain to surrender it 11 shinano maru took the russian survivors to captivity in sasebo post war civilian service edit shinano maru returned to civilian service in 1906 on nippon yusen s routes to seattle after more modern vessels were available shinano maru was transferred to regional services especially the kobe keelung route in 1913 kuomintang leader sun yat sen sought refuge in japan and travelled to kobe on shinano maru in 1923 the ship was transferred to kinkai yusen a subsidiary company of nippon yusen in 1929 the ship was sold to hokushin kisen and sold again in 1930 to the fisheries company nichiro which converted it into a floating factory ship supporting the fishing fleets in the north pacific processing salmon off the coast of kamchatka peninsula pressed back into service as a transport in the pacific war shinano maru was torpedoed january 18 1944 with moderate damage then slightly damaged by a naval mine on june 1 1945 and again by an airstrike on july 14 1945 which killed two crewmen she was docked at nagasaki during the final days of the war shinano maru was so obsolete and rusted that noted manga artist shigeru mizuki wrote in his diary that the iron of the hull was so rusted and thin that he considered it miraculous that the ship remained afloat and that even the wake of a torpedo would be enough to sink it after the surrender of japan it was used as a repatriation vessel bringing back japanese former prisoners of war from siberia one of those returning to japan on shinano maru was the future novelist shōhei ōoka at the beginning of the korean war the ship was used as a mother ship for landing operations of the u s navy 12 shinano maru was sold for scrap in 1951 notes edit the shinano maru the argus melbourne 23 october 1900 p 4 retrieved 30 december 2012 via national library of australia corbett p 154 1 2 3 4 5 corbett p 222 corbett p 218 corbett p 221 uses quelpart for jeju do not the battleship of the same name 1 2 3 4 corbett p 223 1 2 corbett p 224 idzumi in corbett p 226 corbett p 226 corbett p 308 field p 291 references edit corbett j s 1994 reprint maritime operations in the russo japanese war 1904 1905 naval institute press isbn 1 55750 129 7 field james a 1962 history of united states naval operations korea washington u s government printing office wilson h w 1999 1969 battleships in action scholarly press isbn 0 85177 642 6 external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to shinano maru ship 1900 clyde built ships in japanese retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title shinano_maru_ 1900 oldid 1326728165 categories auxiliary cruisers of the imperial japanese navy 1900 ships russo japanese war naval ships of japan ships built on the river clyde ships of the nyk line steamships of japan ocean liners hidden categories articles with short description short description matches wikidata use dmy dates from march 2018 articles containing japanese language text commons category link is on wikidata articles with japanese language sources ja this page was last edited on 10 december 2025 at 14 47 utc page was rendered with parsoid text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike 4 0 license additional terms may apply by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy wikipedia is a registered 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