Kosei Maru (other)
Kosei Maru is the name of a number of ships. Kosei Maru may refer to:- *SS ''Kosei Maru'', a 3,262 GRT Japanese cargo ship sunk by USS ''Sunfish'' on 13 March 1943. Built as EFC Design 1023 ''Buffalo Bridge'' 1919 by Submarine Boat Company. *SS ''Kosei Maru'', a 3,551 GRT Japanese cargo ship sunk by USS ''Sargo'' on 11 November 1943. * MS ''Kosei Maru'', a ferry built in 1991 and currently in service with Seatruck Ferries Seatruck Ferries is a UK-based freight-only ferry company which commenced services in 1996. It is a subsidiary of CLdN. It operates out of four ports on the Irish Sea, including Heysham and Liverpool. History Seatruck was established in 1996 ...

USS Sunfish (SS-281)
The first USS ''Sunfish'' (SS-281), a ''Gato''-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the ocean sunfish, ''Mola mola'', a plectognath marine fish, having a deep body truncated behind, and high dorsal and anal fins. Construction and early career ''Sunfish'' was laid down on 25 September 1941 by the Mare Island Navy Yard at Vallejo, California, launched on 2 May 1942, sponsored by Mrs. J. W. Fowler, and commissioned on 15 July 1942, Commander Richard W. Peterson in command. ''Sunfish'' held her shakedown in the San Diego Bay area and then proceeded to San Francisco, California, for post-shakedown repairs. On 26 October 1942, she stood out to sea en route to the Pacific war zone. First and second war patrols, November 1942 – April 1943 She arrived at Pearl Harbor, T.H. on 1 November, and departed on her first war patrol on 23 November. Her assigned patrol area was off the coasts of Honshū and Hokkaidō, Japan. The submarine laid ...
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Submarine Boat Company
Submarine Boat Company (Submarine Boat Corporation) was a large-scale World War I ship manufacturing shipyard, located at Newark, New Jersey's Port of Newark. Submarine Boat Company operated as a subsidiary of the Electric Boat Company, now General Dynamics Electric Boat. Submarine Boat Company was founded in April 1915 to meet the demand for ships for World War I. Submarine Boat Corporation built the Design 1023 ships, this was a steel-hulled cargo ship. Submarine Boat Company built merchant cargo ships from 1917 to 1922. Submarine Boat Company was to able to complete ships quickly as they had other shipyards prefabricate about 80% of the hull. Submarine Boat Company worked with: Merchant Shipbuilding Corporation in Bristol, Pennsylvania, and American International Shipbuilding, in Hog Island, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. During World War I, at its peak, the shipbuilding the company employed 25,000 people. The Submarine Boat Company received a 150 shipbuilding contract from the U ...
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USS Sargo (SS-188)
USS ''Sargo'' (SS-188), the lead ship of her class of submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the sargo fish. Her keel was laid on 12 May 1937 by the Electric Boat Company in Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on 6 June 1938 sponsored by Mrs. Catherine V. Nimitz, the wife of Captain Chester W. Nimitz, and commissioned on 7 February 1939. Sargo batteries The ''Sargo'' was the first vessel equipped with a new lead-acid battery designed by the Bureau of Steam Engineering (BuEng) to resist battle damage, based on a suggestion by her commissioning commanding officer, Lieutenant E. E. Yeomans. It quickly became known as the "Sargo battery". Instead of a single hard rubber case, it had two concentric hard rubber cases with a layer of soft rubber between them. This was to prevent sulfuric acid leakage in the event one case cracked during depth-charging. Leaking sulfuric acid would be capable of corroding steel, burning the skin of crew memb ...
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MS Kosei Maru
The MV ''Ippotis'' was a roll-on/roll-off ferry owned and operated by Eptanisos Maritime on the Ibiza–Barcelona route. History ''Ippotis'' was launched in 1991 as the ''Kosei Maru'' for Kanko Kisen KK. * 1998 she was sold to Strintzis Lines and renamed ''Ioalaos''. * Later in 1998 she was renamed ''Loon-Plage'' and sold to East Coast Ferries. * 1999 she was sold to DFDS Tor Line, renamed ''Celtic Star'' and put into service on the Rotterdam–Immingham route. * April 1999, she was sold to P&O Irish Sea Lines for service on the Liverpool–Dublin route. ''Celtic Star'' was reflagged to Cyprus in May 1999. * 2002 she was renamed ''Northern Star'' and transferred to the Larne–Liverpool route. * 2003; sold to Dart Line for service on the Dartford–Vlissingen route. * 2004; sold to CoTuNav Tunisian Ferries for service on the Tunis–Livorno route. * 2006; sold to Celtic Link Ferries and renamed ''Celtic Star''. She was used on the Dublin–Liverpool route. * 2007; ...
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