The Idemitsu Maru was an oil tanker that entered service on December 7, 1966. When it was commissioned, it was the first Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) and the largest oil tanker in the world.
On January 26, 1966, one day after the Tokyo Maru , the first oil tanker with a load capacity of more than 150,000 tons, was put into service, the Ishikawajima Harima Heavy Industries shipyard in Yokohama stretched the keel of the Idemitsu Maru under hull number 920 . The christening took place on September 5th, 1966 and on December 7th of the same year the ship was put into service by its client, the shipping company Idemitsu Tanker Company, as the world's first VLCC.
The Idemitsu Maru had an aft propulsion system and a bridge house arranged amidships. Together with the raised forecastle, the silhouette of the tanker followed the traditional three-island design .
Against the background of the global tanker crisis, the ship was abandoned on October 29, 1980 by the Li Chong Steel & Iron Works Company in Kaohsiung.
literature
'Idemitsu Maru': World's biggest merchant ship . In: Marine Engineering / Log . Vol. 72, No.2 . Simons-Boardman Publishing Corporation, New York February 1967, p.51-54 .
