Cap Finisterre entering the Tagus River in Lisbon, photographed in 1912 by Joshua Benoliel
History
German Empire
Name
Cap Finisterre
Operator
Hamburg-South America Line
Builder
Blohm & Voss, Hamburg (Germany)
Yard number
208
Laid down
1910
Launched
8 August 1911
Completed
18 November 1911
Out of service
August 1914
Identification
Call sign SHVK
Fate
Seized by Allies on 4 April 1919
United States
Name
USS Cap Finisterre
Acquired
11 April 1919
Out of service
25 November 1919
Identification
Call sign GJBR
Fate
transferred to UK then to Japan
Empire of Japan
Name
Taiyō Maru
Operator
Nippon Yusen (NYK)
Acquired
1920
Identification
Call sign JAHA
Official number: 28445
Fate
Torpedoed and sunk by USS Grenadier, 8 May 1942
General characteristics
Tonnage
14,458 GRT
Length
180 m (590 ft 7 in) pp
Beam
19.788 m (64 ft 11.1 in)
Draught
10.57 m (34 ft 8 in)
Propulsion
2 quadruple reciprocating steam engines, 10,711 hp (7,987 kW)
Speed
14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Capacity
855 (184 first class, 221 second class, 450 third class)
Notes
Steel construction
The steam ship Cap Finisterre was a German transatlantic ocean liner of the early 20th century, which was transferred to Japan in 1920 as German war reparations, and renamed Taiyō Maru (大洋丸) on trans-Pacific routes. She was sunk on army service by an American submarine in 1942, during World War II, with the loss of over 800 lives, mostly civilians.
The steam ship CapFinisterre was a German transatlantic ocean liner of the early 20th century, which was transferred to Japan in 1920 as German war reparations...
You for Smoking and its film adaptation SSCapFinisterre, a 1911 German transatlantic ocean liner Finisterres, a 1997 album by Dan Ar Braz Finist'air...
fainting spell while completing work on the interior of the ocean liner, SSCapFinisterre, in Hamburg. This curtailed his teaching activities. A second severe...
from Germany but which the UK government also claimed. The others were CapFinisterre, Imperator, Kaiserin Auguste Victoria, Mobile, Pretoria, Prinz Friedrich...
History.com. A&E Television Networks. Retrieved 10 September 2020. "USS Bowfin (SS-287) – Patrol 6" Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine. USS Bowfin Submarine...
owners. Only Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse carried out a raiding voyage; CapFinisterre, Prinz Ludwig and Kaiserin August Victoria) were not taken up for conversion...
Bourdonnais 1747 May 14 1st Cape Finisterre – British under Anson defeat French under de Jonquières 25 October 2nd Cape Finisterre – British under Hawke defeat...
another He 111 was shot down. ErpGr 210 sank the 590 GRT trawler Cape Finisterre. For the next five days both sides suffered virtually no combat casualties...
in a storm off Cape Finisterre. Cason Panama 5 December 1987 A cargo ship that caught fire and was grounded off Cape Finisterre. RMS Douro United Kingdom...
"San Antonio O". Uboat.net. Retrieved 27 September 2012. "Launched 1896: ss SPERO". Clydesite. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 3...
lives SS Clan Alpine 1918 5,485 13 March 1943 sunk by escort ship HMS Scarborough after being torpedoed by German submarine U-107 off Cape Finisterre; loss...
freighter" Taiyo Maru (14,500 tons) (built in Germany in 1911 as the CapFinisterre). Lent fired four torpedoes, two for influence, two for contact; the...
of the Swedish ship Stråssa on this date, see the entry for 10 April 1940 "SS Arlington (+1940)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 12 February 2023. "WWII-era shipwreck...
2, Monday 1st - Sunday 14th". Naval History. Retrieved 15 November 2011. "SS Lars Magnus Trozelli (+1940)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 21 October 2011. "Lars...
1938 C. Calunietti, Ciudad de Panama Surface action - Captured by the Nationalist cruiser squadron Confiscated, renamed Castillo Rio Seco y Finisterre...
Retrieved 16 November 2011. "Ellen M." Uboat. Retrieved 15 February 2012. "SS Fram (bow Section) (+1940)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 8 November 2011. Fram "Fram"...
killed when their ship collided with the French ship MV Fabiola off Cape Finisterre in a fog. The Bonfiaz caught fire and sank. Six of her 50 crew were rescued...
in the Atlantic Ocean 130 nautical miles (240 km) north west of Cape Finisterre, Spain (46°00′N 11°04′W / 46.000°N 11.067°W / 46.000; -11.067) by SM UB-49...
"Ioannis P. Goulandris". New Jersey Scuba Diving. Retrieved 29 December 2020. "SS Ioannis P. Goulandris (+1942)". wrecksite.eu. Jordan, Roger (1999). The World's...
Global Information
German Empire
United States
Empire of Japan
Nippon Yusen (NYK)