Japanese showed interest in buying Dutch whaling factory Willem Barendsz according to the Commercial Fisheries Review dated August 1964 No. 8

An item reported that the three Japanese Ataling whaling companies were likely to sign a contract for buying the Dutch 26,830 gross tons whaling factory Willem Barendsz including the 6% international whale-quota. The purchase was to be made after the June 1964 International Whaling Conference. She was already offered by her owner in January 1964.(1)

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1. IMO 5389906 and call sign PIQE. Gross tonnage 23.799/26.830 tons, net tonnage 15.090 tons, summer deadweight 26.152 tons, bale capacity 38.000 cubic feet and as dimensions 639.6 x 90.6 x 44.4 (depth) feet. Launched by Dok- en Werf Maatschappij Wilton-Fijenoord N.V., Schiedam, Netherlands with yard number 743 on 20 November 1954, delivered on 9 July 1955 to the N.V. Nederlandse Maatschappij voor de Walvisvaart, Amsterdam, Netherlands (Vinke&Co.), sold to the Atlantic Harvester (Pty) Ltd., South Africa and handed over on 27 October 1965, recommissioned in 1967 homeport Cape Town, South Africa, call sign ZSUL, owned by Willem Barendsz Ltd. and managed by Silverman-Group, both of Cape Town, since 1973 as the Yu Sin, homeport Busan, South Korea-flagged, owned and managed by Korea Wonyang Fisheries Co. Ltd., Busan, renamed Gae Cheog No. 1 in 1978, renamed Gae Cheog in 1981, renamed Ocean Pioneer in 1987 and renamed Gae Cheog in 1996. Sold to be broken up in second quart of 2001 arrived at the shipyard Xinhui, China on 1 June 2001.