Draft:MV Musashi Spirit
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | |
| Owner | Polaris Shipping, South Korea[3] |
| Operator | Polaris Shipping, South Korea |
| Port of registry | Marshall Islands[3] |
| Builder | Sasebo Heavy Industries, Japan[1] |
| Yard number | 385[1] |
| Laid down | 19 March 1992[1] |
| Launched | 21 August 1992[1] |
| Completed | 22 January 1993[1] |
| Identification |
|
| Fate | Broken up, 2017 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Ore carrier |
| Tonnage | |
| Length | 330.25 m (1,083 ft 6 in) o/a[6] |
| Beam | 56 m (183 ft 9 in)[6] |
| Draught | 20.9 m (68 ft 7 in)[4] |
| Depth | 30.65 m (100 ft 7 in)[4] |
| Installed power | 22,939 kW (30,762 hp)[1] |
| Speed | 1 knot (1.9 km/h; 1.2 mph) |
Musashi Spirit (later named Prem Putli and Stellar Unicorn) was a tanker launched in 1993, and converted to a VLCC (very large cargo carrier) in 2009, and broken up in October 2017 after cracks developed in her hull.[1]
She was broken up at Gadani Beach, Pakistan.[1]
She was broken up in 2017, after cracks were found in her hull, in Gadani, Pakistan,[7]
and after her owners, Polaris shipping's other VLOC Stellar Daisy sank on March 31st, 2017, with the loss of 22 lives, and cracks were found in her sister ship Stellar Queen's main deck in early May.[8][9][10]
Her sister ships are Stellar Young, Stellar Way, Stellar Venture, Stellar Crown and Stellar Ace.[2] CHECK unclear they say "sister or similar"
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Musashi Spirit". www.aukevisser.nl. Retrieved 6 August 2026.
- 1 2 3 "STELLAR UNICORN - Ore Carrier, IMO 9006734". www.marinetraffic.org. Retrieved 6 August 2026.
- 1 2 Public, Marine. "STELLAR UNICORN – Bulk carrier | IMO 9006734, Built 1993". Marine Public. Retrieved 6 August 2026.
- 1 2 3 "Stellar Unicorn: Bulker Carrier & Details and current position, IMO 9006734". SHIPNEXT.
- ↑ "STELLAR UNICORN, Bulk Carrier - Details and current position - IMO 9006734 - VesselFinder". www.vesselfinder.com. Retrieved 6 August 2026.
- 1 2 "MarineTraffic: Global Ship Tracking Intelligence | AIS Marine Traffic". www.marinetraffic.com.
- ↑ Jiang, Jason (30 May 2018). "Another elderly Polaris VLOC in trouble". Splash247.
- ↑ Chambers, Sam (6 April 2017). "Polaris suffers another VLOC mishap". Splash247. Retrieved 6 August 2026.
- ↑ Team, The Editorial (31 May 2017). "Operator resumes operation of VLOC raising industry concerns". SAFETY4SEA.
- ↑ [poop "MV STELLAR DAISY Loss Casts Shadow Over Fleet of Vale Iron-Ore Carriers"]. qCaptain. Bloomberg. 30 May 2017.
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