JAPANESE MERCANTILE MARINE
TRAINING SHIP FOR BOYS’ EARLY VISIT TO AUCKLAND. (Special to Daily Times.) AUCKLAND; June 14. Advice has been received that the Japanese mercantile training ship Spintoku Maru 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 1924. 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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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21980, 15 June 1933, Page 8
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