Containership “Kamakura Maru” at anchor off off Kobe, May 1972
Owner: Nippon Yusen Kaisha., Tokyo
Port of registry: Tokyo
Builder: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Kobe (Hull-1023)
Gross tons: 51,139
Deadweight: 28,900
Length overall: 261.00 m
Max. draft: 11.99 m
Engines: 2 x steam turbines, total 80,000 s.h.p., by builders' Nagoya yard
Speed: (max. sea trials): 30.13 knots
Completed 1971, becoming the world's largest & fastest container ship at thje time
1982: steam turbines replaced by 2 x 8-cylinder B&W diesels, total 26,800 b.h.p., by Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Tamano
1988: ownership transferred to N.Y.K. Marinera Shipping S.A., Panama, renamed “Oceanus Osaka”
1995: sold to Mediterranean Shipping Co., renamed “MSC Claudia”
December 2008: sold for demolition at Alang, India