Northern anchorage, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Islas Canarias, Spain 20 November 2023
Panama-flagged, IMO 9073402, MMSI 354915000 and call sign HPZO. As Haru Verdy owner/manager Kyokuyo Shipping, Tokyo, Japan. As Nor Cape in 2018 Cook Islands-flagged. Keel laid down by Kanasashi Hevay Industries, Shizuoka, Japan on 27 April 1993, launched on 9 June 1993 and completed on 22 December 1993.
Laid down by William Denny&Brothers Ltd., Dumbarton, Scotland for the Union SS Co. Of New Zealand in 1921, launched and baptized on 28 November 1921, completed on 13 May 1922, active on the shipping lines Australia-Fijis-Canada-Cook Islands, Australia-Fiji and Australia-USA, requisitioned by the British Ministry of War and became a transport, captured by the Japanese merchant cruisers Hokoku Maru and Aikoku Mari near Ceylon on 12 July 1942, renamed Hoki Maru in September 1942, served as auxiliary transport in the Imperial Japanese navy sunk in an American air attack off Truk on 17 February 1944 and stricken on 31 March 1945. Gross register tonnage 7,113 tons, under deck 6,489 tons, net tonnage 4,425 tons, 10,810 tons deadweight and as dimensions 450.8 x 58.2 x 31.4 x 28.6 (loaded) feet.
Speed 11 (normal)-13 (maximum) knots. Two screws. Diesel propulsion.
An item reported that
in October 1846 the American whaler Heroine master West of Fair Haven was
wrecked on Palmerston Island [coral atoll in the Cook Islands, Pacific Ocean].
Of the 1.000 barrels oil were 300 salvaged. Despite that she was lost in the
night only one crewmember was killed. The Alert master Middleton of New London
rescued her crew and landed them on 1 December in the Bay of Islands, New
Zealand.
An item reported that the British governor of Fiji proposed to found a coal bunker station on the island Soewarrow [Suwarrow, Cook Islands?] which would become of importance after the Panama Canal was completed. The islands was lying east of Samoa and north of the Cook Islands and was in the past property of the firm Henderson&Macfarlane, Auckland, New Zealand. The British consul of the Vriendschapseilanden [Tonga] Hamilton Hunter visited the island with the warship Forch for surveying purposes. The intention was to contract more as 700 British-Indies coolies for 3 year. They all would get an own piece of land for their subsistence until the station was completed.
