Cargo Ship Mikage Maru No.18 Launching Commemorative Commemorative Medal/昭和十一年武庫汽船株式会神戸造船所建社第十八御影丸進水記念章

Width 90 mm.
Thickness 4 mm.

Obverse

武庫汽船株式會社 - Muko Kisen Co., Ltd. /Muko Shipping Company/

第十八御影丸進水記念 - Mikage Maru No.18 Launching Commemorative

昭和十一年十一月一日 - November 1, 1936


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三菱重工業株式會社 - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.

神戸造船所建造 - Built by Kobe Shipyard

marked

造幣局製 - Made by Mint


Original case.

記念 - Commemorative

Inside 造幣局製 - Made by Mint

 

Tabular Record of Movement http://www.combinedfleet.com/Mikage18_t.htm.

 

USS Silversides (SS/AGSS-236) is a Gato-class submarine, the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the silversides. Silversides was one of the most successful submarines in the Pacific Theater of World War II, with 23 confirmed sinkings, totaling more than 90,000 long tons (91,444 t) of shipping. She received a Presidential Unit Citation for cumulative action over four patrols, and twelve battle stars. She presently serves as a museum ship in Muskegon, Michigan, and is a National Historic Landmark.​

While on her tenth war patrol, again off the Marianas Islands, Silversides destroyed six enemy vessels for a total of over 14,000 tons. On 10 May, she torpedoed and sank the cargo ship Okinawa Maru, followed up with the passenger/cargo ship Mikage Maru; and then sent the converted gunboat Choan Maru Number Two beneath the waves. Ten days later, she added to her score when she sank another converted gunboat, the 998-ton Shosei Maru. On 29 May, the submarine torpedoed and sank the cargo ships Shoken Maru and Horaizan Maru; and then headed for Pearl Harbor, arriving on 11 June. Two days later, she got underway for Mare Island Navy Yard for overhaul, returning to Pearl Harbor on 12 September.
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