The Kiyosumi Maru was built in 1934. Completed in October of that year as single screw ship developing 2187 horse power and 16 knots. It originally served as a passenger-cargo vessel and later adapted as an armed merchant cruiser. Displacing 8,614 tons, it was 453-feet in length and 60-feet wide. The Kiyosumi now rests on its port (left) side in 40 to 120-feet of water.
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Here is a kerosene lantern and a set of binoculars, what may have been a power supply, machinery of some sort, and a number of items that were placed together.
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Other artifacts as a control wheel, a gauge, electrical insulators, and a lonely pipe fixture.
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In addition to the kerosene lanterns scattered about, we did find a number of electric light fixtures. Though the fixtures are primitave in nature, the glass has survived sixty plus years exposure to the elements.
Just before departing the interior, I looked up and found this bicycle hanging from the side of the hold.
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