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A factory ship, also known as a fish processing vessel, is a large ocean-going vessel with extensive on-board facilities for processing and freezing caught fish or whales. Modern factory ships are automated and enlarged versions of the earlier whalers , and their use for fishing has grown dramatically.
Nisshin Maru (16,764 grt), commissioned in 1936, was a whaling factory ship built by Taiyo Gyogyo from a purchased blueprint of the Norwegian factory ship Sir James Clark Ross. [12] This Nisshin Maru was sunk by the submarine USS Trout in Balabac Strait, Borneo on May 16, 1944. [11] [12] [13]
She was rebuilt over a period of six months and put back into service as a whale oil factory ship, re-entering service on 8 October 1951 under the name Tonan Maru. [22] [2] She served in the whaling fleet until 1968, becoming the longest-serving Japanese factory ship. [23] Tonan Maru was scrapped in April 1971. Her aft portion and funnel, which ...
With the later development of the slipway at the ship's stern, whale catchers were able to transfer their catch to factory ships operating in the open sea. [1] Previous to that was the whaleship of the 16th to early 20th centuries, driven first by sail and then by steam.
Each caught whale is secured to the side of a whale catcher with rope. Lines are later used to transfer the whales from the whale catcher to the factory ship. Whales are next winched onto the factory ship through a slipway at the stern of the vessel. On the flensing deck several workers use specialized tools to butcher the whale.
After the fall of Norway to Nazi Germany on 10 June 1940, the Norwegian whale factory ship Suderøy and her whale catchers, Suderøy IV (J03), Suderøy V (J04), Suderøy VI (J05) and Star XVI were ordered to sail to Halifax from Hampton Roads, where they had taken refuge.
Achilles (1813 ship) Active (1801 whaler) Admiral Barrington (1781 ship) Admiral Cockburn (1814 ship) Adventure (1804 ship) African Queen (1797 ship) HMS Alderney (1757) Alexander (1801 ship Shields) Allison (1795 ship) USS Amazon; Amelia (1795 ship) Amelia Wilson (1809 ship) USS American (1861) Amity (1801 ship) Amphitrite (1789 ship) Andrew ...
SS Lancing was a Norwegian whale factory ship, originally the British merchant ship Knight Errant. She passed through a number of owners, being named Rio Tiete, Omsk, Calanda, and Flackwell at different stages in her career. She was sunk off Cape Hatteras on 7 April 1942 by the German submarine U-552.