Vintage Toyo Kisen Kaisha Oriental Steamship Co. TKK Ocean Liner Timetable 1919

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Estate sale find, vintage original 1919 time table for the Toyo Kisen Kaisha (Oriental Steamship company) The Semi-Tropical Trans-Pacific Route Sailings San Francisco - Hong Kong Line.
Around 1896-1897 Toyo Kisen Kaisha (TKK) was founded with the aim to enter the transpacific trade and three ships were ordered in Great Britain.
The first of the new vessels the Nippon
Maru
started the service from Yokohama to San Francisco in 1899, later followed by the American Maru and Hong Kong Maru.
Toyo Kisen Kabushiki Kaisha saw the first five years run smoothly until in 1902 Pacific Mail Steam Ship Co. introduced the steamers Korea and Siberia which outclassed everything else in the Pacific Trade.  About the same time the Russo Japanese War broke out and the ships of Toyo Kisen Kabushiki Kaisha were taken over for military purposes.
In 1905 TKK established a South American service which continued after the amalgamation of TKK with Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) and begins making regular voyages to South America.
TKK suffered on 1 April 1916 its first major loss as the Chiyu Maru struck a reef and had to be abandoned.  To replace this loss the Korea and Siberia were purchased from Pacific Mail Steam Ship Co. where they were reconditioned, refurbished and renamed.
In 1920 the Allied Council on surplus shipping assigned to Japan the former Cap Finisterre built for Hamburg Sud Amerika Linie, she was refitted and chartered to TKK and renamed Taiyo Maru.
Even with five good ships on the Transpacific Route, TKK suffered from severe competition in the early 1920s. The United States Shipping Board placed five new ships on the San Francisco - Manila run under the Pacific Mail Steam Ship Co. and five more from Seattle to the Orient.
Also, Canadian Pacific and the Dollar Steamship Company were stiff competitors and in 1926 negotiations were begun to amalgamate TKK with Nippon Yusen Kaisha backed by the Japanese Government and on 10 March 1926 TKK was taken over by Nippon Yusen Kaisha.
Brochure is approximately 8.25" X 8.75" (unfolded), approximate shipping weight: 4 ounces.
PLEASE SEE DESCRIPTION AND PHOTOS FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS - The timetable is in overall Fair to Good Minus used condition with  signs of wear, creases, tears, fading, sunning and age toning, stains, soiling, no writing, no odors, please see images.
(C1B16-104)