Compañía de Filipinas

History
Name
  • 1890: Compañía de Filipinas
  • 1898: Filipinas
  • 1902: Compañía de Filipinas
  • 1942: Hoei Maru
OwnerCía Gen de Tabacos de Filipinas
Operator
Port of registryManila
BuilderLobnitz & Co, Renfrew
Launched1 July 1890
Completed1890
Identification
Fatesunk by aerial mine, July 1942
General characteristics
Typecargo ship
Tonnage
  • 1914: 655 GRT, 397 NRT
  • 1935: 785 GRT, 390 NRT
Length54.9 m (180.0 ft)
Beam9.1 m (29.9 ft)
Depth3.7 m (12.0 ft)
Installed power88 NHP
Propulsion

Compañía de Filipinas was a cargo steamship that was built in Scotland in 1890 for the Compañía General de Tabacos de Filipinas (CGTF). In the Philippine–American War the Navy of the First Philippine Republic armed her as its flagship and renamed her Filipinas. After that war she reverted to her original name and commercial service. In the Second World War, Japanese forces captured her and renamed her Hoei Maru. She was sunk in July 1945, shortly before the end of the war.