Editor’s Note: Moments in Time is a collection of recovered newspaper briefs and other publications, compiled by local historian, Steve Hathcock, that offer a look back at the history of the Rio Grande Valley and the rest of the world.
Attempt made to lasso police officers!
Last night two mounted men attacked policemen Martinez and Coronado and tried to lasso them. Failing in this they rode about town firing off their pistols, and then made their way out into the country without being arrested. (Editor’s note: this was originally published in The Daily Cosmopolitan (Brownsville, Tex.), on Aug. 22, 1884.)
Japanese-owned motorship docks at valley port
Another record fell Saturday at the Port of Brownsville with the arrival here of the Japanese-owned Motorship Kimikawa Maru of the “K” line.
Measuring about 510 feet long, by 60 feet wide, and capable of carrying 14,000 tons of cargo, the ship was said to be the largest ever docking at the Port of Brownsville.
Built on a destroyer-like principal, the motorship can skim through the water at 17 knots an hour.
Gilbert Philen Jr., of the Philen Shipping Company, agents, said that the MS Kimikawa Maru is 44 feet longer than any vessel ever docking here.
The vessel was built two years ago at the Kawasaki shipyards in Japan. There are eight loading hatches aboard the flush-deck ship.
(Editor’s note: this was originally published in the Valley Sunday Star-Monitor-Herald (Harlingen, Tex.), on Sunday, Aug. 20, 1939)
Editor’s Note: In July 1941, the Kimikawa Maru was taken over by the Imperial Japanese Navy and converted into an auxiliary seaplane tender. She was able to operate six Aichi E13A “Jake” floatplanes. She operated in northern waters including the capture of Kiska and Attu Island. She was re-rated a converted transport (Miscellaneous) on Oct. 1, 1943. After conversion, the ship operated in the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies. On Oct. 23, 1944, she was sunk by USS Sawfish in the South China Sea west of Cape Bojeador, Luzon, Philippines.
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