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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hama" data-source="post: 786897" data-attributes="member: 69762">Oh, I thought she was converted in to a hospital ship during the war...What I meant by her liner days was her pre-war service, i.e. the golden age of ocean liners. Maybe I should've been more specific.Alright that sounds reasonable. Thanks for that info.Yep, welcome to the world of merchant shipping. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite118" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />Some of the stories I've heard from my grandfather's days (around 1930s-40s) about conditions aboard freighters of the time might turn you off any career at sea. That was before things like containerisation or ratings being allowed separate cabins. Particularly during the Depression it seems they were trying to maximize the amount of goods they could cram in while minimizing on crewspace.I recon Japan would have used whatever vessels they could get their hands on as the war dragged on, whatever size. Some countries like Ireland during WW2 that didn't have much of a merchant navy when the war broke out were even resorting to using little coasters for the run down to Lisbon before bigger vessels were acquired. I imagine that would have been no fun at all...</blockquote>