Shanghai, Sept. 29. FTER sixteen years of continuous service on one run under the red and white barred flag of the spon Yusen Kaisha line, those two sturdy passenger liners the Shanghai Maru and the Nagasaki Maru will next month said under the ensign of the Toa Kaiun Kaisya, or the East Asia Marine Transport Company. The two familiar shuttle ships will be retained on their old run, from Shanghai to Nagasaki and back, and will adhere to their' usual schedule of making the round trip every fifth day.
The Shanghai Maru and the No sok Maru were the last ships built for the N.Y. Line by a British shipbuilding firm, They are both pro-duels of tne famous firm of W. Denny Bros, Dumbarton, and were built for the N.V.K, Line expressly for the run between Shanghai and. Nagasak. 'The Nagasaki Maru was built in 1922 and the Shanghai Maru was completed in 1923. Both vessels are pro-polled by twin screws; the Nagasaki Maru has a net tonnage of 6,268 while her. sister' ship is just nine tons lighter, "The main feature of the two sleek liners 1s speed. Both vessels can do 21 knots and have to maintain a fast speed in order to leave on the round trip every fth day. A. desire by the offelals of the steamship line to inaugurate' a rapid. service from Shanghai to Japan with a minimum of sea travel led to the construction sot the vessels. They have proved their worth in the past sixteen years, having carried approximately a million and a half passengers" bo-tween them on their some 400 round rips between here and Nogasake
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