sentences:  "Ural Maru" made her first voyage on 12 April 1929.Her civilian career was relatively uneventful, although she was damaged in Osaka by a typhoon in 1934 
  
  In 1937, after the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War, "Ural Maru" was requisitioned by the Imperial Japanese Army and converted into a hospital ship from 13 October 1937 to February 1938, returning sick and wounded soldiers from the front back to Japan.