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Yutaka Iwasaki comments on ship wrecks

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Hello Everyone,
I introduce three cargo ships that now are buried in Kiska.
Borneo Maru, Nojima Maru and Urajio Maru.

The ship wreck in the Gertrude Cove, Kiska is the BORNEO MARU, Osaka Shosen’s 5,863 Gross ton.
That Mr. born1945 is asking on
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12567713@N00/88094931/
and you can see in the Google Map image
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=dutch+harbor+alaska&layer=&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=16&ll=51.934721,177.456021&spn=0.01024,0.027122&t=k
Here is another photo of this wreck.
http://www.illywhacker.com/cruising_stories/russia_to_alaska.htm
http://www.illywhacker.com/images/used_images/0700_wreck_gertrude_cove_kiska.jpg

Borneo Maru story
27/Sept. [...]

A found photo of the Kano Maru

( Photos and general )

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Yutaka found a photo on Flickr posted by ‘born1945′, who found a collection of Alaska photos dating from the WWII era. There are some great images in the set and I encourage you to visit ‘born1945’s Flickr account.
Could he have any other’s of interest?
Here is what Yutaka had to say about the photo:
“This is [...]