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The Nisshin Maru (日新丸) was the primary vessel [5] of the Japanese whaling fleet and was the world's only whaler factory ship. [6] It was the research base ship for the Institute of Cetacean Research for 2002 to 2007. [7] It had a tonnage of 8,145 GT and is the largest member and flagship of the five-ship whaling fleet, headed by leader ...
Japan claimed that four crew members on board a Japanese whaling ship in Antarctic waters were injured March 3, 2008, when the anti-whaling group threw butyric acid on board. [235] Japan confirmed the later throwing of "flashbang" grenades onto the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ship, MV Steve Irwin by their whaling factory ship, Nisshin ...
Tonan Maru No. 3. Tonan Maru No. 3 (Japanese: 第三図南丸, Dai-san Tonanmaru), from 1951 simply the Tonan Maru, was a Japanese whale oil factory ship. Built at Osaka in 1938 she was the largest merchant ship built in Japan to that point. She carried out whaling in the South Atlantic and in 1941 was blacklisted by the British government ...
The 8,145-ton MV Nisshin Maru was the mothership of the Japanese whaling fleet and was the world's only remaining whaler factory ship [3] until its decommissioning in 2023. The ship is owned by Tokyo-based company Kyodo Senpaku Kaisha Ltd. and is contracted by the Japanese Institute of Cetacean Research. [4]
The Yūshin Maru No. 2 (第二勇新丸, Daini Yūshin Maru) is a Japanese -registered whale catcher that undertakes whaling operations in the North Pacific Ocean and Southern Ocean. Along with other vessels of the Japanese whaling fleet, she has been featured on American television since 2008, in the documentary-style reality series Whale Wars.
MY Ady Gil. MY Ady Gil (formerly Earthrace) was a 78-foot (24 m), wave-piercing trimaran originally created as part of a project to break the world record for circumnavigating the globe in a powerboat. Powered by biodiesel fuel, the vessel was also capable of running on regular diesel fuel. [2][3][4] It used other eco-friendly materials such as ...
Harpoon ships of the Icelandic whaling fleet in port. Since the 1982 moratorium on commercial whaling, few countries still operate whalers, with Norway, Iceland, and Japan among those still operating them. Of those, the Nisshin Maru of Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR) is the only whaling factory ship in operation.
20–40. The MY Bob Barker was a ship owned and operated by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, named after American television game show host and animal rights activist Bob Barker, whose donation of $5 million to the society facilitated the purchase of the ship. [6] She began operating for the group in late 2009 / early 2010 in its campaign ...