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Does anyone recognize this guy?

That small picture makes identification difficult.

According to the funnel (smokestack) logo, the ship is owned by NYK (Nippon Yusen Kaisha). The funnel's shape is typical of a diesel-powered ship.

Candidates are: S Class (Sanuki, Sasako, Sagami, Sado, Sagara, Sakura and Sakito Marus) but I am unable to id the proper one.

Gilbert

I've got two other pictures but both prominently show his name.

Let's try this:

Clue #1
He was laid down in March of 1937 for the Nippon Yusan Kaisha Line. He was requisitioned in mid-August of 1941 by the IJN and arrived @ Kobe on August 23rd of 1941 to begin conversion as an auxiliary cruiser. He was fitted with four 140mm single mount guns, twin Type 96 25mm AA guns, one quadruple-mount, one dual mount and four single mount Type 93 13.2-mm machine guns and three single mount 7.7-mm machine guns. Two 553-mm torpedo tubes were also installed.

Awata Maru. Her TROM is here: http://www.combinedfleet.com/Awata_t.htm

Gilbert

For your collection, a painting of her in wartime camo by Ueda Kihachiro.

and a 1/700 model built by Motoyuki IWASHIGE

The original B&W is a quite beautiful ship.

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

The original B&W is a quite beautiful ship.

Indeed.

Thanks for these threads!

ORIGINAL: Gilbert

Awata Maru. Her TROM is here: http://www.combinedfleet.com/Awata_t.htm

Gilbert

Good Show! I'd thought I had a stumper but you found him out.

Thank you. The clue definitively helped because of the "TROM" style. If you want more pictures of her, I have a couple more.

Gilbert

ORIGINAL: Gilbert

Thank you. The clue definitively helped because of the "TROM" style. If you want more pictures of her, I have a couple more.

Gilbert

Hi Gilbert,

Please feel free to post the additional pictures. I'll be curious to see if they are the same two that I found. And for those that like this kind of thing - it's just more eye-candy <grin>.

TTFN,

Mike

Hi Mike,

In fact one is very similar to the other.

Enjoy !

Gilbert

In fact, the original picture doesn't depict Awata Maru 7,397 GRT '37 but the postwar Awata Maru 7,601 GRT '52.

I have attached an enlarged picture of the latter. You can see a radar aerial on the mast atop of bridge, such a device very rarely seen on Japanese Marus during the Pacific War and definitely with a different shape.

But anyhow, she is a beautiful ship indeed.

Gilbert