History | |
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Japan | |
Name | Awa Maru |
Operator | Nippon Yusen (NYK) |
Builder | Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Nagasaki, Japan |
Yard number | 102 |
Laid down | 20 June 1898 |
Launched | 27 July 1899 |
Completed | 14 November 1899 |
Out of service | 1930 |
Fate | Scrapped |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage | 6,309 gross register tons (GRT) |
Length | 135.6 m (445 ft) |
Beam | 15.1 m (50 ft) |
Speed | 13 knots (24 km/h) |
The Awa Maru (阿波丸) was a Japanese ocean liner owned by Nippon Yusen Kaisha. The ship was built in 1899 by Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. at Nagasaki, Japan.
The ship's name comes in part from the ancient province of Awa.[1] This turn-of-the-20th-century Awa Maru was the first NYK vessel to bear this name.[2] A second mid-century, 11,249 ton Awa Maru was completed in 1943.[3]