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Jaxon
October 4th, 2008, 09:49
Busy bee Usio at work:
:jump:

Jaxon
October 4th, 2008, 09:58
I directly had to browse my archives.
First look was for Germany liners, such as the POTSDAM recently in the shipyard of Wolfi - but then I noticed the different style in the booms.

So my guess is: It has a Japanese touch, another Maru?

Closest I could find is the Noto Maru, turned into a Hell-Ship during the war:

Jagdflieger
October 4th, 2008, 11:08
Thanks for the update Jaxon. Our harbors and ports are looking better and better with all of the new cargo and comercial ships.

watchdog22
October 4th, 2008, 16:17
When this one's done there'll be a screaming need for a new series of Truk Atoll missions

Jagdflieger
October 4th, 2008, 17:12
Amen to that brother Watchdog.

Skipsan
October 7th, 2008, 18:40
Jaxon: I belive Usio-san is building an Akagi Maru Class Armed Merchant Cruiser IE; "Auxiliary Cruiser". If it is the Akagi Maru she cared 3 F1M2 "Pete's" in the early 40's. All 5 ship in her class where converted to Auxiliary Cruisers and the Asaka Maru was in fact a Hellship.

Click on the attachment and page down to painting 3g I think this is the ship in dry dock #2.

http://www.west-point.org/family/japanese-pow/photos.htm

Skipsan:kilroy:

miamieagle
October 8th, 2008, 05:15
Fantastic!:jump:

Jaxon
October 13th, 2008, 01:57
Wow, the progress is amazing!

Skipsan
October 13th, 2008, 08:46
Jaxon what does the funnel marking tell us about the ship:ques:

Skipsan:kilroy:

Jaxon
October 13th, 2008, 12:21
Two red stripes line, I guess.

:costumes:

Seriously, when following the link to the hell ships above, there are other ships with this marking.

I suppose these are the colours of a Japanese Merchant Line.

Skipsan
October 13th, 2008, 15:45
Here is what I came up with:

http://flagspot.net/flags/jp~nyk.html

http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/nyk.htm#awaji

All 3 Ship's [Akagi sp as "Akaji", Asaka & Awata Maru's"] are shown in the 2nd HTML as auxiliary cruisers. I belive that the Akagi is misspelled. :banghead:

So there is an outside chance we have an Auxiliary Cruiser of the Kinkai Yusen Kaisha Lines in the 1936 to 1939 time fame.:isadizzy:

Skipsan:kilroy:

Jaxon
October 13th, 2008, 15:56
Good find!

I like the following lines from your link:

The Flag Bulletin translates Nippon Yusen Kwaisha as Japanese Mail Ship Company.
The two red lines are meant to represent the katakana ni the first syllable of Nippon, extending the upper portion of the glyph to the borders of the flag.