SS Cap Finisterre

The steam ship Cap Finisterre was a German transatlantic ocean liner of the early 20th century.

Career
She was built in Hamburg by Blohm & Voss for the Hamburg-South America Line. She was completed in 1911 and named for Cape Finisterre in western Spain. Cap Finisterre made her maiden voyage from Hamburg to Buenos Aires in November 1911 and served on routes to South America until the outbreak of World War I.

In the event of war Cap Finisterre was ear-marked by the Imperial German Navy for conversion as an auxiliary cruiser, and the outbreak of war in August 1914 found her at Hamburg. However she was not requisitioned for service and remained at Hamburg for the duration of the war due to the Allied blockade.

At the end of World War I Cap Finisterre was seized by the Allies as war reparations and after service as a troop transport, was transferred in 1921 to Japan’s Toyo Kisen Line. As Taiyo Maru, she served on the Yokohama to San Francisco route. With the outbreak of World War II she was in service as a transport with the Japanese military, when, on 8 May 1942, she was torpedoed and sunk off Nagasaki by US submarine Grenadier.