Hospitals/Hospital Ships. 1904-05 Stampless postcards from unnamed hospital ships written whilst at anchor at Ujina, or from a Pharmacist on a ship off the west coast of the Korean Peninsular with Naval Postal Agency No. 14 c.d.s applied in the fleet communications ship "Keijo Maru"; card from Lyuishin Logistics Hospital with Liaotung F.P.O 4, and a card from the hospital for the light railway unit at Liaotung with Kwangtung F.P.O 1. Also propaganda postcard to Belgium published by the newspaper L'Asahi and sold to provide funds for the Red Cross, and Japanese Red Cross postcards (3) showing the Hospital Ship "Kakuai Maru". (8).

Hospital Ship "Doyo Maru". 1905 (June 3) Stampless lettersheet containing a picture of a Japanese lady reading and geese, written by a nurse on the ship whilst anchored at Yongampo, Korea, to a surgeon with the 3rd Army. She tells him the ship has taken in many wounded, it is a pleasure to rest on land again, but she hopes to return to the battlefront, and includes "off Tsushima Island we met HIJMS Chinen and received information we might run into enemy ships .... so we returned. Soon we saw five or six ships to our north .... at 2.10pm we heard the sound of guns, and also when we arrived at Rokurento. There we stayed for two days. It was a splendid victory with thirteen ships sunk and six captured". A good account of the battle of Tsushima, the climax of the war. One flap detached, otherwise largely fine and scarce, with red cachets of "Military Mail" and "Army Hospital Ship Doyo Maru".