Brazil Maru

MV Brazil Maru is a retired Japanese cargo liner that sailed for the Japanese shipping company, Osaka Shosen KK, on the Japan to South America immigrant service from 1954 to 1963. Built by the Shin Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Kobe Shipyard in Kobe, Japan, she departed on her maiden voyage on the 30 July 1954. She was transferred to Nihon Ijusen KK in 1963 and later Mitsui O.S.K. Lines in 1970. After a decline in the immigrant trade and a period as an unsuccessful cruise ship. The Brazil Maru was retired in 1974 and moored as a maritime tourist attraction named Toba Brazil Maru in Toba, Mie Prefecture, Japan, but was closed and sold to ship breakers at Shanghai in 1996. Sold again in 1997 and beached as a tourist attraction Hai Shang Cheng Shi in Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province, China in 1998, the vessel remains there today but has since closed.