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Hikawa Maru

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History
Japan
Name: Hikawa Maru
Namesake: Hikawa Shrine, Saitama
Owner:
Operator:
Port of registry: Yokohama
Route: Yokohama – VancouverSeattle
Builder: Yokohama Dock Co.
Laid down: 9 November 1928
Launched: 30 September 1929
Maiden voyage: 13 May 1930
Identification: H-022 (with SCAJAP, 1945–47)
Status: Museum ship
General characteristics
Class and type: Hikawa Maru class
Type:
Tonnage: 11,622 GRT
Length: 163.3 m (535 ft 9 in)
Beam: 20.1 m (65 ft 11 in)
Propulsion:
Speed: 18.5 knots (34.3 km/h)
Capacity:
  • 331 passengers:
  • 75 first class
  • 70 tourist class
  • 186 third class
Notes:

Hikawa Maru (氷川丸?) is a Japanese ocean liner that Yokohama Dock Company built for Nippon Yūsen Kabushiki Kaisha ("NYK Line"). She was launched on 30 September 1929 and made her maiden voyage from Kobe to Seattle on 13 May 1930. She is permanently berthed as a museum ship at Yamashita Park, Naka-ku, Yokohama.

Hikawa Maru was one of three Hikawa Maru class motor ships, all named after major Shinto shrines. The Hikawa Shrine is in Saitama in central Honshu. Her two sister ships, both lost in the Second World War, were Heian Maru and Hie Maru.

Hikawa Maru and her sisters ran a regular liner route between Yokohama, Vancouver and Seattle. She had a reputation for service that combined splendid food and beautiful art deco interiors, and she was nicknamed "The Queen of the Pacific".Charlie Chaplin travelled on her for part of the round the World tour that he made in 1932.Kanō Jigorō, the founder of Judo and Japan's representative on the International Olympic Committee, died traveling on her in 1938.


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