Ships of Kanmon Strait

  IZUMI MARU No.6 ★ 第六いづみ丸 (PS auto-adjusted and cropped) is a brand new LPG Tanker (delivered June 2024) and sailed thru the Kanmon Straits on January 6, 2025. It was a cold winter day and the weather and air quality was less then optimal for photography. Ship Freakazoid is posting three images taken from the same photograph. One is cropped and auto-adjusted, another is auto-adjusted only, and the third is the original image taken with an Olympus E-520 DSLR with Zuiko 150mm lens with no filter. Video footage was taken with a JVC Everio GZ-E265-N video camera with 54x Konica Minolta lens mounted on a Slik tripod. Check out SF's other videos of ship spotting vessels in the Kanmon Straits of Japan on YouTube:   https://www.youtube.com/@ShipFreakazoid IZUMI MARU No.6 ★ 第六いづみ丸 (PS auto-adjusted) IZUMI MARU No.6 ★ 第六いづみ丸 (Olympus E520 - no filter - no editing) Vessel Name: Izumi Maru No. 6 ★ 第六いづみ丸 Vessel Type: LPG Tanker Port of Registry: Matsuyama IMO Number: 10301...

LPG tankers often provide a welcome and bright color splash on the backdrop of the polluted Kitakyushu skies. The Korean vessel DL LOTUS is one such ship. DL LOTUS and Kanmon Buoy #24 - Matching Color Schemes! Can you spot the two crew members in blue clothing and yellow hardhats? They were either working, or just taking in the sights of the Garden Paradise Kitakyushu as their ship DL Lotus sailed past on the Kanmon Strait. DL LOTUS sailing poast Ganryujima and Shimonoseki Vessel Name: DL LOTUS  Length: 109.95 meters  Width: 16.83 meters  IMO: 9353979  Flag: Liberia  MMSI: 441453000  Type: LPG Carrier  Call Sign: 5LFP8  Gross Tonnage: 5665 tons  Deadweight: 4998 tons  Year Built: 2008  Builder: Sasaki Shipbuilding (Hiroshima, Japan)  Owner: Daelim (Seoul, Korea)  Manager: NDSM (Busan, Korea) An LPG tanker hel...

Vessel Name: GASCHEM WARNOW  Length: 114.78 meters Width: 16.83 meters  IMO: 9560168  Flag: Liberia  MMSI: 636091772  Type: LPG Tanker  Call Sign: A8SP5  Year Built: 2010 A.D. The below photo of the gas carrier ship GASCHEM WARNOW was taken at 9:41 on the morning of May 8, 2024 as the ship sailed thru the Kanmon Straits of Japan. There is a crew member checking out the sights from the bow of the ship. Ship Freakazoid used a 150mm Zuiko lens on an Olympus E-520 DSLR with settings of ISO 100, f/5.6, and 1/200 sec.  GASCHEM WARNOW   Vessel Name: GASCHEM WARNOW  Length: 114.78 meters Width: 16.83 meters  IMO: 9560168  Flag: Liberia  MMSI: 636091772  Type: LPG Tanker  Call Sign: A8SP5  Year Built: 2010 A.D. Gaschem Warnow - Gas Tanker sailing past Shimonoseki 

On the side of the ship the advice "NO TUG" is painted --- not just once, but twice.  Perhaps some overexuberant ship freak got too excited upon seeing Buena Esperanza and did something he shouldn't have?  Let's hope not... The ship's cargo is clearly labeled LPG in gigantic lettering.  Important advice such as "NO SMOKING" and "SAFETY FIRST" is also painted on the vessel.   LPG Tanker BUENA ESPERANZA passing by Kitakyushu LNG Co., Ltd. Buena Esperanza is Spanish for Good Hope.  Great name for a ship, isn't it?  This fine looking Panama flagged LPG tanker passed thru the Kanmon Straits of Japan on Monday May 6th 2024, just after Japanese Golden Week. The vessel no doubt brought good hope to the Kitakyushites toiling away in the factories by which it passed.   Buena Esperanza sailing past Kitakyushu Japan - May 6, 2024 Vessel Name:  BUENA ESPERANZA Length: 96 meters  Width: 16 meters  IMO: 9643960...

GASCHEM LEDA recently passed thru the Kanmon Straits of Japan.  This vessel is an LPG Tanker and has a carrying capacity of 6459 cubic meters of liquid gas. GASCHEM LEDA - LPG Tanker - Kanmon Straits Japan   Name: GASCHEM LEDA  IMO: 9374882 General vessel type: Tanker  Detailed vessel type: LPG Tanker  Flag: Liberia [LR]  Gross Tonnage: 5973 Summer  DWT: 7410 t  Length: 114.98 meters  WIDTH: 16.8 meters  Year built: 2007  Port of registry: MONROVIA LPG Tanker GASCHEM LEDA as photographed by Ship Freakazoid The vessel GASCHEM LEDA passing by Shimonoseki GASCHEM LEDA passing by pollution spewing factories of Kitakyushu Japan On a lazy hazy day early in 2024 A.D., the vessel GASCHEM LEDA passed thru the Kanmon Straits of Japan and was captured on "digital film" by Ship Freakazoid with his trusty Olympus E520 DSLR and Zuiko lens.  The ship was apparently heading to Korea's Port of Daesan.  More info. on the port here: https://...

CIPTA DIAMOND - LPG Tanker It's always nice to see a vessel with some color to it.  Cipta Diamond sails under the flag of Indonesia.  This LPG tanker went thru the Kanmon Strait between Kitakyushu and Shimonoseki Japan on June 23, 2023. It was photographed by Ship Freakazoid, who used an Olympus e-520 DSLR camera with a Zuiko 150 mm lens. IMO: 9244415 Name: CIPTA DIAMOND Vessel Type - Generic: Tanker - Hazard D (Recognizable) Vessel Type - Detailed: LPG Tanker MMSI: 525100545 Call Sign: YBWE2 Flag: Indonesia [ID] Gross Tonnage: 3533 Summer DWT: 3844 t Length Overall x Breadth Extreme: 97.69 x 16 m Year Built: 2001 Home Port: TANJUNG PERAK Cipta Diamond is registered in Indonesia - Photo is it going thru Kanmon Strait Cipta Diamond 97.69 meter LPG tanker vessel