WWII IJA Crane Ship Seishu Maru Resin Model Kit

Building the nice Five Star kit to depict the crane ship delivering a locomotive to Hong Kong. I can't find a clear date for the pictures, but my guess is these pictures depict the Seishu Maru sometime between 1945 (when surrendered to the British) and July 1946 (when it ran aground in a typhoon near Hong Kong and was deemed a total loss).

From the Trains Magazine forum site, I found the following additional information: "The former Imperial Japanese Army crane ship Seishu Maru unloads a US built 160 ton 2-8-0 for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency at Hong Kong in 1946. This class of locomotive was identical to the US Arny’s (sic) S-160 class Consolidations."