KOSEKI UMPANSEN
(Japanese wartime ore carrier by Ueda Kihachiro)
NIKKYO MARU:
Tabular Record of Movement
© 2013 Bob Hackett
July 1943:
Tsurumi, Yokohama Laid down at Nippon Kokan K.K as a 5,484-ton
Type 1K Standard Merchant cargo ship (ore carrier) for Nissan Kisen K.K., Tokyo.
1943:
Launched and named NIKKYO MARU.
July 1943:
Completed.
20 August 1943:
SW of Todomari Saki, Honshu. Wrecked off Kojima at
34-14N, 136-39E.
-Bob Hackett
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