(Painting of a Japanese passenger-cargo ship by Ueda
Kihachiro)
In late 1944, HAKUSAN MARU was requisitioned by the Japanese government. She left Japan for Siberia where she loaded 2,200-tons of Red Cross relief supplies sent for distribution to Allied prisoners of war and civilian internees. HAKUSAN MARU survived the war
and was finally scrapped in 1965.
