Name This AE...375

[Brady]

???

[Local Yokel]

Hikawa Maru. Eighty years old and still going strong.

[stuman]

Looks like she needs some fresh paint.

[rjopel]

Not a target.

[JeffroK]

ORIGINAL: rjopel

Not a target.

Don't bet on it!!

[Cap Mandrake]

700 Club cruise?

[rtrapasso]

Yep - Hikawa maru - only passenger ship of Imperial Japan to survive the war ... here is another shot of her in hospital mufti:

[rtrapasso]

Oddly, Hikawa Maru aided in the escape of Jewish refugees before the war, the refugees travelling to Japan and then onto Canada.

"During the war the Hikawa Maru struck mines on three occasions, however due to her extra thick steel plating and she suffered only minor damage."

She sailed until 1960 then she became a floating youth hostel and museum... the youth hostel closed in 1973... in 2002 the restaurant attached to the museum closed, and 2003 the whole thing folded up... she is still afloat, but her fate is uncertain... this mirrors another (US) ship i think we've seen here in Brady's pics.

Hikawa Maru in better times:

[rtrapasso]

Ooops: Update -
"Happily, NYK Line made good on their promises and began the restoration of the historic Japanese liner in August 2007. On April 25, 2008, this fine ship was renamed NYK Hikawamaru (however I believe that the name on her hull is unchanged) and she was reopened to the public with great fanfare. The day of her official opening just happened to be her 78th birthday." [:)]

[DivePac88]

And here is a Picture of a model of her.

[tocaff]

Isn't it sad that as we age and rust we look worse for wear?  [:(]

[Brady]

Hikawa Maru, it is[:)]

.............

A couple More Shots of her:



In 1930:



More Shots of Her

[DuckofTindalos]

ORIGINAL: tocaff

Isn't it sad that as we age and rust we look worse for wear?  [:(]

One would think that this last would be a natural consequence of the first two, no?[&:]

[Mynok]

I don't know...a little age and rust seem to hide my natural defects. [:D]