Oriental Bluebird

Oriental Bluebird
Career Japan
Name: Hiyo Maru
Owner: Kyodo Senpaku Kaisha, Ltd[1]
Operator: Institute of Cetacean Research[1]
Port of registry: Japan[1]
Launched: 1979[1]
Renamed: "Hiyo Maru" after dispute with Panamanian Gov't.
Fate: Sold for scrap in 2010 [2][3]
General characteristics
Type: Products tanker (single hulled)[1]
Tonnage: 8,725 GT (gross tonnage)[1]
Length: 143.29 m (470 ft 1 in) o/a[1]
Beam: 20.41 m (67 ft 0 in) (moulded)[1]
Draft: 8.42 m (27 ft 7 in)[1]

The 8,725 ton Hiyo Maru was the largest member of the Japanese whaling fleet; providing fuel, resources, and stock storage space for that fleet and its crew. In 1992, it was renamed and re-flagged to Panama as the Oriental Bluebird. According to Greenpeace, after a dispute with the Panamanian Government in 2008, it was de-flagged and re-registered to Japan. [4] The Hiyo Maru served as the fuel tanker for Japan's whaling fleet[5], and was alleged by Greenpeace to also transport whale meat.[6] In August of 2010, the ship was sold to China to be scrapped.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Lloyd's Register - Fairplay, access date February 20, 2007
  2. ^ http://merseyshipping.blogspot.com/2010/10/scrappings-from-22nd-october-to-26th.html
  3. ^ http://www.robindesbois.org/english/shipbreaking21.pdf
  4. ^ http://www.greenpeace.org/international/press/releases/season-may-be-ended-for-damage
  5. ^ "Battleships in the whaling war". The New Zealand Herald. 25 December 2005. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/whales-and-whaling/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501010&objectid=10361629. Retrieved 1 November 2011. 
  6. ^ Greenpeace weblog, eyewitness account, published 9 January 2006
v · d · eJapan Whaling fleet of the Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR) Japan
Factory ships
Harpoon ships
Shōnan Maru 2 • Yūshin Maru • Yūshin Maru No. 2 • Yūshin Maru No. 3
Support ships
Oriental Bluebird • Sun Laurel • Kaiko Maru
Prey

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