Ships of Kanmon Strait

SANYOMARU No.56・第五十六三洋丸 The Sanyo Maru #26 sailed the Kanmon Straits on January 6, 2025. This sleek looking little tanker has been known to frequent dumps like Ube and Iwakuni after passing by the heavenly cities of Kitakyushu and Shimonoseki.  Vessel Name: SANYOMARU No.56・第五十六三洋丸 Vessel Number: 140753 (from the Sanyo Kaiun Shokai homepage) Vessel Type: Oil Products Tanker IMO: 9474149 MMSI: 431000568 Call Sign: JD2646 Gross Tonnage: 748.00 G/T Navigation Area: Coastal Cargo Type: 白油・CPP Cargo Quantity: 2,199 KL Length Overall: 71.57 m Beam: 12.00 m Depth: 5.20 m Pump Capacity: 750 × 2 Launch Date: February 2008 Sanyo has quite an impressive fleet of tankers. Either move to Garden Paradise Kitakyushu and watch them pass thru the straits or simply check out their website: http://www.kk-sanyo.co.jp/about.html Party on! It might be the Year 2025, and man is still alive, but party like it's 1999!

Atago Maru No. 2 ★ 第二あたご丸 (IMO 8922711)   Vessel Name: Atago Maru No. 2 ★ 第二あたご丸 Vessel Type: Oil Products Tanker IMO: 8922711 MMSI: 431400531 Call Sign: JK5460 Length: 49.19 meters Width: 8.00 meters Year Built: March 1996 Engine: 1D/1,000 PS Gross Tonnage: 199 Deadweight: 543 Ship Freakazoid captured this vessel on a chilly winter noon, January 6th, 2025 with an Olympus E520 DSLR camera with Zuiko 150mm lens (photo above) and JVC Everio GZ-E265-N video camera with 54x Konica Minolta lens mounted on Slik tripod (video below). No filters were used, no editing was performed, and voodoo doctors were not utilized in the production of what you see. Footage was shot from the Garden Paradise Kitakyushu Kokura North Ward stretch of the Kanmon Straits of Japan. 

A cool looking tanker passed thru the Kanmon Straits. Its name? GRAND ACE6. Apparently it is neither Grand Ace Six nor Grand Ace 6, but Grand Ace6. And, it used to be called STX ACE6, but has, like so many others, changed its identity... Oil tanker sailing in the Kanmon Straits of Japan (Grand Ace6) The color scheme brightened up the strait as this lovely oil tanker / chemical tanker sailed past the vibrant bustling metropolis Garden Paradise Kitakyushu and the depressing dilapidated Shimonoseki Slums on neighboring Honshu Island. Chemical Tanker / Oil Products Tanker GRAND ACE 6 "Grand Ace 6" is painted on the ship's stern and the very important health advice "No Smoking" and safety advice "Safety First" and "Hazardous Cargo" are painted on the bridge.  Ship Freakazoid hopes all of you put safety first and don't smoke, unless you are on fire, because smoke is an important indicator to others in your immediate vicinity that you are a huma...

Was this vessel named after Bob Dylan? Or worse yet, after a Beverly Hills 90210 character? Who knows... All we know is that this big ass oil products tanker is coming right at you! DYLAN Oil Tanker IMO 9421336 Dylan passed thru the Kanmon Straits of Kitakyushu and Shimonoseki Japan on the morning of May 8, 2024. The above photo shows its approach from the west with Kitakyushu factories in the background on a crummy misty spring day in Japan. Side view of oil products tanker Dylan sailing in Japanese waters Vessel Name:    DYLAN Length:              183.2 meters Width:                32.2 meters IMO:                    9421336 Flag:                    Marshall Islands MMSI:               636023780 Type:         Tanker / Oil Tanker /...