Akebono Maru


Akebono Maru may refer to:
Akebono Maru was a Japanese fishing trawler that capsized on 5 January 1982. The Minerals Management Service of Alaska reported she sank north of the Adak and notes it at the top of its list of "Alaska's Ten Worst Shipping Losses
In The Last 20 Years". In total, 32 people died.
Very little is known about her sinking. There are almost no English-language reports of her accident from 1982–1990. The earliest record of the ship is a New Zealand marine index of an accident that occurred on 16 February 1980, when the ship collided with a squid boat off Timaru. At the time, the ship was commissioned by Ferons Ltd.

Japanese oil tanker

Akebono Maru was also the name of a Japanese oil tanker damaged on 3 June 1942, during the Battle of Midway and sunk in shallow water on 30 March 1944 off Ngeruktabel, Palau. She was re-floated in 1957, but sank under tow during a storm.

MS ''Akebono Maru''

Another ship, MS Akebono Maru, is an LNG tanker.