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    The Nisshin Maru (日新丸) was the primary vessel of the Japanese whaling fleet and was the world's only whaler factory ship. It was the research base ship...
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    joined Farley Mowat in order to prevent the Japanese whaling vessel Nisshin Maru from hunting in an action Sea Shepherd called Operation Leviathan. Sea...
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  • primarily takes place aboard the Japanese factory whaling vessel, the Nisshin Maru, in the Sea of Japan, as it makes its annual journey to Antarctica. Two...
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    blocking Nisshin Maru's slipway. On 18 February 2011, after being aggressively tailed by Bob Barker for over 3,000 nmi (5,556 km), Nisshin Maru changed...
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  • Strait in July 1943 Nisshin (Japanese warship), launched in 1869 日新丸: Nisshin Maru, a Japanese whaling ship that was targeted by activist group Sea Shepherd...
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  • packages of slippery methyl cellulose powder onto the Japanese vessel Nisshin Maru. Australian foreign minister Stephen Smith condemned Sea Shepherd's actions...
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    March 30, 1869, she arrived at Nagasaki, and was named Nisshin-maru (日進丸) by Saga Domain. Nisshin Maru was transferred from Saga Domain to the new Meiji government...
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    two tankers to be converted into factory ships, the Hashidate Maru and the Nisshin Maru. Whale catchers once again took blue whales, fins, humpbacks and...
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    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...
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    An adult and sub-adult Minke whale are dragged aboard the Japanese whaling vessel Nisshin Maru....
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    located the Nisshin Maru Japanese whaling vessel. The Bob Barker reportedly flew the Norwegian flag when within range of the Nisshin Maru. The Norwegian...
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    registered as a Motor Yacht (MY). On 21 December 1999 Arctic Sunrise and Nisshin Maru, a Japanese whaling ship, collided. The same ships collided again in...
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  • merchant ships (commonly known as the "maru code"), broken in May 1940. 28 May 1941, when the whale factory ship Nisshin Maru No. 2 (1937) visited San Francisco...
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    "Ride Of The Valkyries: Japanese Whalers Claim Sea Shepherd Harasses The Nisshin Maru With Classical Music". Underwatertimes.com. Tokyo. February 9, 2010....
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    (Whale hunting vessels were built by Bremer Vulkan.) Became Japanese Nisshin Maru II; scrapped in Taiwan 1987. AG Weser, 1937: merchant ship Kandelfels...
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    An adult and sub-adult Minke whale are dragged aboard the Nisshin Maru, a Japanese whaling vessel....
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  • 1987-09-01 Star Ray  Cyprus 99011/70 Iraqi missile damaged 1987-09-02 Nisshin Maru  Japan 103099/80 Iranian PG damaged 1987-09-02 Dafni  Greece 48473/57...
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    target. However, all proved to be duds. On 7 February, she sighted tanker Nisshin Maru No. 2 moored off Lutong, Borneo. She made a submerged approach, launched...
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    Nisshin was assigned to Vice Admiral Teruhisa Komatsu’s IJN 6th Fleet together with the seaplane tender Chiyoda and the auxiliary cruiser Aikoku Maru...
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    often contain living quarters for the factory workers. The 8,145-ton MV Nisshin Maru is the mothership of the Japanese whaling fleet and is the world's only...
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    ICR harpoon ship Yushin Maru killing several different whales, and a whale and her calf being taken on board the Nisshin Maru for processing The Australian...
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  • the Yūshin Maru No. 2 as the activist vessel attempted to obstruct the transfer of a whale up the slipway of the factory ship Nisshin Maru. Both sides...
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    "Takeshima") in a collision with the 16,764-gross register ton oiler Nisshin Maru and was run aground to prevent her from sinking. After she was refloated...
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    An adult and sub-adult Minke whale are dragged aboard the Nisshin Maru, a Japanese whaling vessel...
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  • cheese, at Japanese whaling vessels, including the factory vessel, the Nisshin Maru. An Entertainment Weekly magazine cover is shown with the headline, "We’re...
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  • in Tokyo. The Hashidate Maru was finally sold for scrapping on 20 April 1965. Hiyo Maru Nisshin Maru Shōnan Maru 2 Yūshin Maru № 2 International Whaling...
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    factory ship Nisshin Maru and two to three sighting/sampling vessels – including Toshi Maru No. 25 (739.92 gross tons, 1994–1999), Toshi Maru No. 18 (758...
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  • helicopter deck. After some time the Robert Hunter is able to find the Nisshin Maru and engages it. In the course, one of the Sea Shepherd's small boats...
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  • whaling crew during a confrontation between the whaling factory ship Nisshin Maru and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society vessel MY Steve Irwin. The...
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    On his third patrol, Trout damaged Kyokuyo Maru and Nisshin Maru, and sank Hirotama Maru. The Hirotama Maru battle was both a torpedo and deck gun engagement...
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