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SS MADRAS MARU docked at a wharf
SS MADRAS MARU docked at a wharf

SS MADRAS MARU docked at a wharf

Datec 1930
Object numberANMS0047[658]
NamePhotograph
MediumBlack and white photographic print on paper
DimensionsOverall: 86 x 144 mm
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineANMM Collection Transfer from the Australian War Memorial
HistoryCargo steamship of 2802 tonnes. Built in 1919 by Mitsubishi, Nagasaki, for Osaka Shosen Kabushiki Line who sold it to Nanyo Kaiun K K in 1935. The vessel requisitioned by the Japanese Imperial Navy in 1941 during WWII, it was sunk by an American submarine in 1944.