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cargo ship CHEF MéCANICIEN MAILHOL
Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes, 1919 - 1935 
Design features
type : ......................cargo ship
detailed type : .............
hull material : .............steel
type of propeller : .........1 propeller
building year : .............1917
name of shipyard : ..........Kawasaki Dockyard Company
place of shipyard : .........Kobé (Japon)
sister ship(s) : ............Lieutenant De La Tour, Commissaire Lecoq, Commandant Mages
previous name(s) : ..........
War Admiral (Furness Company [Grande-Bretagne], 1917-1919)
service life in the company :1919 / 1935
launching : .................
crew : ......................9 officiers et 34 hommes d'équipage
passengers : .................
length : ....................121,60 meters
width : .....................15,50 meters
gross tonnage : .............5709 tx
net tonnage : ...............4282 tx
deadweight : ................9100
displacement : ..............12300
engine type : ...............machine alternative à triple expansion
power hp : ..................2500cv
power hp usual : ............440cvnx
speed : .....................10 n
lines : ....................
remarks : ..................
withdrawal from service : ..Désarmé en 1934 et vendu en 1935
subsequent names : .........
Maleas (?[Grèce], 1935-1939),
Theodoros Coumantaros (?[Grèce], 1939-1940),
Kinkai Maru (?[Japon], 1940-1942)
History
To replace the losses of ships during the first World War the English government decides in December 1916 a vast new constructive standardized program in some types easy and fast to realize. 800 orders are placed to the United Kingdom, Canada, the USA and Japan, whose names are preceded by the prefix WAR. 20 steel ships are built in Japan, from which 4 are taken again after the war by Messageries Maritimes (CHEF MECANICIEN MAILHOL, COMMANDANT MAGES, COMMISSAIRE PIERRE LECOQ, LIEUTENANT DE LA TOUR) and one to the Compagnie de Navigation Fabre (SYRIA). Launched in July 1917 under the name of WAR ADMIRAL for Shipping Controller and put under management with Furness Withy & Co. Acquired December 1919 by Messageries Maritimes, baptized with the name of the chief engineer of the DJEMNAH who perished with his ship torpedoed on July 14, 1918, after having survived to the disparition of the YUNNAN on October 4, 1915, of the MEMPHIS on February 6, 1916, ERNEST SIMONS on April 3, 1917 and CALEDONIEN on June 12, 1917. Assigned from 1920 to 1934 to the line Dunkerque-Far East, then laid up in Dunkerque. Sold in November 1935 to John Papadeas and renamed MALEAS under Greek flag. Resold in 1938 to TH. & N. Coumantaros Bros. (Piraeus) and renamed THEODOROS COUMANTAROS, then in 1940 to the Japanese Kotani Mokunosuke under the name of KINKAI MARU. Torpedoed on October 3, 1942 by the American submarine GREENLING by 38°46' N. and 142°02' E.