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Officers
Officers
Captains
Captains
1921 Maiden Voyage: Sakino (Sakine)
October 1922: Sakine (same as Sakino?)
May 1929: Shiro Hirata "one of the oldest in the point of service and most popular masters" in the fleet
1931: Ship Surgeon: Dr. T. Okubo, visited LEAGUE OF NATIONS, HEALTH ORGANISATION, EASTERN BUREAU. July 16 Singapore [see https://www.newmandala.org/singapore-bureau/ ]
March 1931: Y. Okun0
July 26, 1935: T. Kurita
1936: T. Kurita (who, by September 1939 is no longer there for a while; also has a later command)
1938: Capt. T. Fujita
October/November 1939 Toru Fujita see diaries https://www.kinokuniya.co.jp/f/dsg-01-9784895144537 [ 船長藤田徹―明治・大正・昭和を生きた船乗りの遺した記録 ]
Eisaku Wada "Captain Hakonemaru" 1922 ("Eisaku Wada" "A"
Sahigraph Separate Volume Art Special (Japan 81)》 (Tokyo: Morning
Nihon Shimbun, 1994), Board Game 49)
See Chapter 16 on Eisaku Wada. source of painting (not sure I get all this)
Itineraries
Itineraries
1920's--not really an itinerary issue, but Australian newspapers would announce arrivals of steamships from Singapore to Perth including transhipment of passengers from this and other ships.
Note: Some early voyages involved London then Antwerp Rotterdam and Middlesborough
Sailings April 1922-March 1923
Sailings April 1922-March 1923
Ports of call: Yokohama, Kobe, Moji, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malacca, Penang, Colombo, Suez, Port Said, Marseilles, London, Antwerp.
Penang, Malacca and Moji omitted on return voyages.
Sailings August 1926-March 1927 (issued August 1, 1926)
Sailings August 1926-March 1927 (issued August 1, 1926)
Yokohama, Kobe, Moji, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malacca, Penang, Colombo, Aden, Suez, Port Said, Marseilles, Gibraltar, London, Antwerp.
Return voyages from Middlesborough, with calls at Naples. Aden, Penang, Malacca and Moji omitted.
[Not sure if this applies to Hakone Maru, but probably] According to the "European Route Scheduled Sailing Days and Distance" ("European Guide", February 1928, Japan Post), after sailing from Yokohama, before the terminal Antwerp, There are 14 ports of call. In addition to the exceptionally long stay in London for five days, Kobe stays for two days, Moji, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Colombo, and Marseille stay for one day, Penang and Port Said for half a day, Aden , Suez, Naples, and Gibraltar only stay for a few hours.
Source: "Map of the World on the Sea": Japanese are the "sick people" who are not suitable for navy? The News Lens [has other descriptions from other ships of treatment, etc.]
Sailings January 1930-March 1931 (issued January 1930)
Sailings January 1930-March 1931 (issued January 1930)
Yokohama, Kobe, Moji, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez, Port Said, Marseilles, Gibraltar, London. Called at Yokkaichi, Osaka, Aden and Naples on most voyages.
Called at Naples, omitting Aden, Penang, Moji, Osaka and Yokkaichi on return voyages.
Sailings April-October 1935 (issued April 1935)
Sailings April-October 1935 (issued April 1935)
Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe, Moji, Shanghai, Hong Kong, London.
Moji and Nagoya omitted on return voyages.
Sailings March 1938-March 1939 (issued May 1938)
Sailings March 1938-March 1939 (issued May 1938)
Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe, Mozi, Keelung, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Aden, Suez, Port Said, Naples, Marseilles, Gibraltar, London.
Aden, Penang, Mozi, Osaka and Nagoya omitted on return voyages.
1937, November 19 sailing from Marseilles: "Hakone Maru (NYK), November 19, from Marseilles to Naples, Port Said, Suez, Colombo, Singapore, Hong Kong, Keelung, Shanghai, Kobe, Osaka, Yokohama."
1939: Itinerary includes Europe to New York to San Francisco. See clipping.
Not sure about applicability to Hakone Maru, but see this article on Bombay-Kobe route.
Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 15 January 1938, Page 10 (see https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitsbudget19370819-1.2.14)
Shinsekai asahi shinbun [New World Sun], 21 August 1940
Last UK sailings kept getting advertised and moving, so that the actual last sailing was in March 1940. The last advertised sailing got stopped at Lisbon and never made it (see Chapter 9).
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Fares
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