Ryōun Maru
 Ryōun Maru
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The Ryōun Maru ( Japanese 漁 運 丸 , dt. "Fishing luck ") was a Japanese squid fishing boat (English: squid jigging vessel ).
history
The boat was scheduled for scrapping in 2011 and moored in a port on Hokkaidō . The ship with the fishing license plate HKI-1113 ("HKI" for Hokkaidō) was swept away by the 2011 tsunami in Japan . From then on, the ship, which the owner had deleted from the ship register after the tsunami, drifted across the Pacific Ocean as a ghost ship . At the end of March 2012, it was located near the coast of Alaska , externally taken along but able to swim stably. On April 4, 2012, the US Coast Guard dropped a position transmitter on the deck [Receipt?] . Since then the position of the ship has been observed.
Sinking
The coast guard initially planned to sink the ship with the help of explosives in order to avoid endangering shipping. There was still an unknown amount of fuel on board the ship. On April 5, 2012, the US Coast Guard sent the Anacapa to sink the ship. A Canadian fisherman had previously registered his right to salvage the ship . However, this had proven impracticable because the fishing boat could not take the Ryōun Maru in tow. The Anacapa shot at the drifting fishing vessel with her on-board gun until it finally sank.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b US Coast Guard sinks tsunami ghost ship , Spiegel Online , April 6, 2012, accessed April 6, 2012.
- ↑ Japanese ghost ship drifting to Canada , Spiegel Online, March 24, 2012, accessed April 6, 2012.
- ↑ US Coast Guard wants to sink ghost ship ( memento from April 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) , tagesschau.de , accessed on April 5, 2012.
- ^ US destroys Japanese tsunami ghost ship , AFP report , The Daily Telegraph (Australia) , April 6, 2012, accessed April 6, 2012.