FREE: N.Y.K.LINE S.S. TAIYO MARU 14,500 TONS JAPAN SHIP, 1929 old used postcard

The listing, N.Y.K.LINE S.S. TAIYO MARU 14,500 TONS JAPAN SHIP, 1929 old used postcard has ended.

This postcard is from 1929 and is used postally.

INTERESTING HISTORY OF THE SHIP: BACKGROUND

Originally S.S. Cap Finisterre (German Passenger Liner, 1911)
USS Cap Finisterre (ID # 4051), 1919-1919.
Later S.S. Taiyo Maru (Japanese Passenger Liner, 1920-1942)

USS Cap Finisterre, a 14,503 gross ton troop transport, was built at Hamburg, Germany, in 1911 as the Hamburg Sud Amerika company passenger liner of the same name. She spent the First World War in Germany and was transferred to the United States under the terms of the Armistice agreement. Placed in commission by the U.S. Navy in April 1919 she made four voyages between Brest, France, and New York, carrying war veterans home to the United States and occupation troops to Europe. Cap Finisterre completed her final trip in mid-August 1919 and then spent several months at the New York Navy Yard. Decommissioned in late November 1919, she was turned over to the U.S. Shipping Board at that time.

In 1920, Cap Finisterre was transferred to Japan as part of the German war reparations owed to that nation. Renamed Taiyo Maru, she was operated for more than two decades by a variety of shipping lines. On 8 May 1942, while serving as a transport for the Japanese Army, S.S. Taiyo Maru was torpedoed and sunk by USS Grenadier (SS-210).

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