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RFA Surf Pilot
was a tank ship, tanker that was built in 1938 for Japanese owners. She was chartered by the Imperial Japanese Navy and Imperial Japanese Army during World War II: the ship was sunk in January 1945 at Kaohsiung, Takao, Formosa by American aircraft. Salvaged in 1946, she was allocated as a prize (law), war prize to China and renamed ''Yung Hao'' (), but was forced to remain at Hong Kong by the British. She was requisitioned by the British Admiralty, Admiralty during the Korean War and allocated to the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. She was to have been named RFA ''Surf Pilot'' but due to her poor condition she did not serve in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. She served as ''Surf Pilot'', a tender to until 1958 and was subsequently scuttled off Pulau Aur, Federation of Malaya, Malaya in 1960. Description ''Kuroshio Maru'' was built as a tanker for carrying oil in bulk was and assessed at and . Her length was , breadth was and depth was , and she was reported to displace 10,383 tons. The gea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 million residents ; the city proper has a population of 13.99 million people. Located at the head of Tokyo Bay, the prefecture forms part of the Kantō region on the central coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. Tokyo serves as Japan's economic center and is the seat of both the Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan. Originally a fishing village named Edo, the city became politically prominent in 1603, when it became the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate. By the mid-18th century, Edo was one of the most populous cities in the world with a population of over one million people. Following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the imperial capital in Kyoto was moved to Edo, which was renamed "Tokyo" (). Tokyo was devastate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
