Stellar Daisy
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The Stellar Daisy was a South Korean VLOC - bulk carriers for transporting ore .
history
Construction and name
The Stellar Daisy was laid down as a tanker by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries at the Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works in Sapporo , Japan , on July 23, 1992 . The launch was carried out on February 25, 1993, on July 2, 1993 the handover of the tanker took place under the name Sunrise III . From 1993 to 2006 the ship sailed under the Panamanian flag with home port Panama City . From 2006 the ship was sailing as Sunrise with home port Monrovia in Liberia .
In 2008 or 2009 the ship was converted into a bulk carrier in China with a measurement of 148,431 GT and renamed to the Stellar Daisy . The ship then initially sailed under the South Korean flag with its home port of Busan before it was registered in Majuro on the Marshall Islands since 2009 .
Downfall
The Stellar Daisy Polaris Shipping was in March 2017 with a cargo of iron ore in the South Atlantic on a trip from Brazil to China. On March 31, 2017, shortly before midnight, the crew reported water ingress to their shipping company. Then the radio contact broke off. It is believed that the bulk carrier broke up about 2,500 miles off the Uruguayan coast and sank within minutes. During the accident, good weather conditions should have prevailed. Of the total of 24 seafarers on board, only two could be rescued by a life raft; the other 22 crew members, eight from South Korea and another 14 from the Philippines, remained missing. The official search for the missing crew members was stopped on May 10, 2017.
In terms of gross tonnage (GT), the accident is one of the largest of its kind in the shipping industry .
In 2019, the Korean state searched for the wreck of the ship. On February 18 of that year, after a three-day search by Ocean Infinity, it was located at a depth of around 3460 meters.
Web links
- Stellar Daisy in Korean Register (English)
- Report with photo at The Shipping Observer (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stellar Daisy: What went wrong? In: The Company of Master Mariners of Australia. Lloyd's List, accessed February 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Chris Summers: South Korean cargo ship with 24 people on board disappears in the South Atlantic. In: Daily Mail . Daily Mail and General Trust , April 2, 2017, accessed April 3, 2017 .
- ↑ Bulker "Stellar Daisy" sinks in the South Atlantic. In: Hansa - International Maritime Journal . Schiffahrts-Verlag "Hansa" GmbH & Co. KG , April 2, 2017, archived from the original on April 3, 2017 ; accessed on August 17, 2020 .
- ↑ Update: "Stellar Daisy" probably broken apart. In: Hansa - International Maritime Journal . Schiffahrts-Verlag "Hansa" GmbH & Co. KG , April 3, 2017, accessed on April 3, 2017 .
- ↑ Freighter lost in the Atlantic: Did the "Stellar Daisy" shipwreck? In: Focus . Hubert Burda Media , April 2, 2017, accessed April 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Sam Chambers: Polaris reaches compensation agreement with bereaved families as Stellar Daisy search ends. In: splash247.com. Asia Shipping Media Pte Ltd., May 15, 2017, accessed May 22, 2017 .
- ↑ Ocean Infinity locates Stellar Daisy. In: oceaninfinity.com. February 18, 2019, archived from the original on April 4, 2019 ; accessed on August 17, 2020 (English).