Built under yard no 418 as a cargo vessel by the Howaldtswerke at Kiel for M.Jebsen at Alpenrade.
20 December 1904 Launched under the name "MICHAEL JEBSEN".
Tonnage 1.521 BRT, dim. 251.1 x 36.1ft.
One triple expansion steamengine ?hp., speed 10 knots.
February 1905 completed.
She was built for the coastal service on the Chinese coast.
28 Oct. 1914, scuttled as a blockship in Tsingtau harbor (a other source gives 07 Nov. 1914).
July 1915 refloated and repaired by Japanese, renamed "KOSHU".
First in use as a transport.
April 1922 in use as a survey vessel.
Used for the search of the airplane Electra of Amelia Earhart and her co-pilot Fred Noonan which vanished on her flight from Lae in New Guinea to Howland Island on 02 July 1937
The recovery of the Electra as the inscription on the stamp gives is wrong, till today not a single piece of the plane or her crew has been found. During the search was she under command of Capt. Hanjiro Takagi.
1939 Out of commission. 1 April 1940, deleted from Navy List, fate unknown.
Marshall Islands 1987 44c sg120, scott?
Source: Register of Merchant Ships completed in 1904. Log Book.