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In 1909, Japan's first domestically designed and produced battleship, Satsuma, was launched. The U.S. Navy base at the former Yokosuka Naval Arsenal (2004) Yokosuka became one of the main shipyards of the Imperial Japanese Navy in the 20th century, building numerous battleships such as Yamashiro, and aircraft carriers such as Hiryū and Shōkaku.
Uraga Dock Company was founded by Enomoto Takeaki in 1869. A shipyard had already existed in Uraga from the end of the Edo period.When Commodore Perry's flagship anchored off Uraga in 1854, one of the officials of the Tokugawa shogunate who boarded the American vessel was a trained shipwright, Nakajima Saburosuke.
The Uraga Dock Company was the origin in the shipbuilding of Sumitomo Heavy Industries. It was made by Enomoto Takeaki. However, Sumitomo Heavy Industries moved Uraga Dock to Yokosuka in 2003. IHI moved a shipbuilding section to Marine United in 2002 and changed its name to IHI Marine United Ltd. IHI Marine United became the subsidiary of IHI ...
Japanese submarine I-17; Japanese submarine I-29; Japanese submarine I-31; Japanese submarine I-36; Japanese submarine I-44; Japanese submarine I-54 (1943) Japanese submarine I-56 (1943) Japanese submarine I-58 (1925) Japanese submarine I-58 (1943) Japanese submarine I-59; Japanese submarine I-158; Japanese submarine I-159; Japanese submarine I-180
Almost 50 years later, in 1934, the company incorporated as Sumitomo Machinery Co., Ltd. to manufacture machinery for the steel and transportation industries in support of that period of rapid economic growth. In 1969, Sumitomo Machinery Co., Ltd. merged with Uraga Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. to create Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.
Seawise Giant was ordered in 1974 and delivered in 1979 by Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd. (S.H.I.) at Oppama shipyard in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan, as a 418,611-ton Ultra Large Crude Carrier (ULCC). [12] The vessel remained unnamed for a long time, and was identified by her hull number, 1016.
The first ship was launched on 10 September 2009 at the Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd. shipyard in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan.She was completed on 8 March 2010. According to a report by Bloomberg, FAL Oil Co., a UAE-based energy trader, took a loan worth $62.4 million from German DVB Bank in July 2010, in order to refinance the construction of the Al Buhaira and another tanker.
The ship was laid down at the Mitsubishi shipyard in Nagasaki on 17 December 1954, launched on 20 August 1955 and commissioned on 31 July 1956 with the hull number (DD-102). ). She was put into service on 31 July, and was incorporated into the Yokosuka District Fo