- Akebono Maru
The "Akebono Maru" (officially registered "Akebono Maru No. 28") was a
Japan esefishing trawler that capsized onJanuary 5 ,1982 . [cite news|url=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/bering03.shtml|title=Two bodies found in area where fishing vessel disappeared|publisher=Seattle Post-Intelligencer |author=Chris McGann|date=2001-04-03|accessdate=2007-12-05] TheMineral Management Service ofAlaska reported she sank 50 miles north of theAdak and notes it at the top of its list of 'Alaska's Ten Worst Shipping LossesIn The Last 20 Years'. [cite web|url=http://www.mms.gov/alaska/ref/ships/worst20yrs.htm|title=Alaska's Ten Worst Shipping Losses In The Last 20 Years|publisher=Mineral Management Service |accessdate=2007-12-05] In total, 32 souls were lost. [cite news|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DEEDB143EF936A35757C0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all|title=Accepting the Sea's Risk Doesn't Ease the Pain of Losses|publisher=New York Times |author=Sam Howe Verhovek|date=2001-04-05|accessdate=2007-12-05]In fact very little is known about her sinking. There are almost no reports of her accident from 1982-1990. The earliest record of the ship is a
New Zealand marine index of an accident that occurred onFebruary 16 ,1980 , when the ship collided with a squid boat offTimaru . [cite web|url=http://www.nzmaritimeindex.org.nz/ixvessel.asp?ID=30030188&name=AKEBONO%20MARU%20No.18&gsn=&owner=&num=&typ=&tid=0&tix=0&pix=0&SourceID=&refid=&hit=1|title=New Zealand Maritime Index|publisher=New Zealand National Maritime Museum |accessdate=2007-12-05] At the time, the ship was commissioned by Ferons Ltd.The "Akebono Maru" was also the name of a Japanese
oil tanker sunk onJune 3 ,1942 during theBattle of Midway . [cite web|url=http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/midway/mid-1m.htm|title=Battle of Midway|publisher=Naval Historical Center (NHC)|accessdate=2007-12-05] [cite web|url=http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/AAF/USSBS/IJO/IJO-60.html|title=Interrogations of Japanese Officers|publisher=HyperWar Foundation|accessdate=2007-12-05]External links
* [http://www.mlit.go.jp/maia/08monoshiri/maiahist/50s/50s_28akebono.htm Official report] at Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport
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