It was a week away from launching the 24,000dwt
newly-built bulker M/V Tulipan when the vessel was struck by Japan’s cataclysmic earthquake and tsunami
on April 7 2011. The vessel was still in its final stages of outfitting at the Yamanishi Shipbuilding facility, located in the city of Ishinomaki in Myagi Prefecture, which was in the heart of the disaster zone. The Japan Coastguard confirmed that the Tulipan
was dragged from its drydock as the tsunami flooded the yard and later ran aground with heavy hull damage of the bottom. Pls see video (beginning 0:50):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5vIaEV6vHM
Regards Peter

Her hull is watertight so couldn't they just remove the accommodation/bridge section & put a new section on instead of scrapping the entire vessel? What a waste.

Strange to see something 'new' but rusty.

I don't think so. My theory is that the superstructure, still unpainted, was attached to the hull to be painted later (not the way this is usually done in state of the art of shipbuilding, but we used to do it like this in Croatia). So this is just plain old rust.

Rgds

Vlad

Are those burn/scorch marks on the accommodation ?