Since the service was irregular for cancellations because of stormy seas and so on, people on the shore watching the large vessel slowly going up north thought it could be a steamship or hospital ship.
海が時化ると欠航するなど不定期だったため、この時もゆっくりと北上する大きな船を沿岸から見た人々は汽船か病院船と思ったという。