A Short Break and Time for a Smoke on the SS Shanghai-Maru

I’m off to London for a week or so on business so no time to post as regularly. As it’s a slow time of year I’ll leave you all to recline in a very comfortable chair with a cigar, a glass of something decent, a good book and a selection of international newspapers. Oh yes, as you can see, sailing to Shanghai on the SS Shanghai-Maru was a real chore!! If this is an even half way accurate representation of the actual smoking room on the ship then I’d have just spent my time quite happily going backwards and forwards. Think upon it as you squeeze into your EasyJet seat to go on holiday this August!

By the way, the SS Shanghai-Maru was a Japanese owned liner (part of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha – NYK – fleet) built around 1923 by Denny W & Bros of Dumbarton reflecting the sort of quality you could expect from the Clydeside shipyards. In 1943 she collided with  another ship about 75 miles north east of Shanghai and sank.

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