JAPANESE VISIT.
MERCANTILE TRAINING SHIP. (Special to the " Guardian.") AUCKLAND, June 15. Advice has been received that the Japanese mercantile training shipSpintoku Main is to visit Auckland. She is scheduled to arrive from San Diego, California, on August 19, and is to sail on her return voyage to Kobe direct on August 27. The vessel is a steel-framed schooner of 2518 tons, and was built at Kobe in 1921. She is maintained by the Japanese Government for the training of cadets from the higher nautical college at Kobe, and this is her eighteenth Pacific cruise.
Captain Hayashi is in command, and the crew of 129 comprises 12 officers, 70 cadets, and 47 men.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 210, 17 June 1933, Page 3
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