KOREA SUN

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Built as a tanker under yard no 7302 by Hyundai Shipbuilding & Heavy Industries, Ulsan, South Korea.
20 June 1974 launched under the name ATLANTIC BARONESS.
Tonnage (1989) 137.692 gross, 102.794 net, 267.819 dwt, dim. 344.43 x 51.9 x 20.6m.
Powered by two steam turbines 26.480 kW., speed 15.5 knots.
Capacity for 315.846 m³ oil in 23 tanks.
July 1975 delivered to owners.

It looks that she was built or chartered for some other account and the deal fell trough, her owner is given as Hyundai Merchant marine Co. Ltd., South Korea. She was launched under the name ATLANTIC BARONESS but delivered under the name KOREA SUN.
She sailed on 09 Sept 1989 from Mina al Fahal for Ulsan.
1989 Sold to K/S Happy Mia (managers Berghav A/S), Norway, renamed HAPPY MIA.
1991 Renamed in MIA.
1992 Sold to Chinese shipbreakers and sailed from Singapore 20 June 1992 bound for Shanghai.
The MIA arrived prior 31 July 1992 at Zhangjiagang for scrapping.

Korea south 1981 30w sg 1465


Source: Lloyds Shipping Index. Marine News 1992/ 230, 694, 760, Navicula.

[ptvisnes]

HB 156 Watercraft on Stamps gives KOREA STAR (1976) for this ship. What is correct?

[aukepalmhof]

KOREA SUN or KOREA STAR sister ships.
The British Ship Stamp Society and the German Navicula give the ship the name KOREA SUN, she is also in Stanley Gibbons given as KOREA SUN.

The following I found in Watercraft Philately May June 1984.
The KOREA SUN was the first VLGG (Very Large Crude Carrier) to be built in Korea.
The photograph on the date card, from which the design appears to have been taken shows the funnel markings of the Asia Merchant Marine Co., Korea, and then they suggests this is probably the KOREA SUN, hull no 7302. Her sistership ATLANTIC BARON (name is wrong), the only other ship of the type, is Greek owned. (The last is not correct the KOREA SUN was launched as ATLANTIC BARONESS (correct name) but before delivery renamed in KOREA SUN. When she carried the funnel markings of the Asia Merchant Marine Co., she can not be the KOREA SUN she was owned by Hyundai Merchant Marine Co. Ltd., Korea but could have been chartered by Asia Merchant Marine Co.)

Watercraft Philately September/October 1984 gives:
A, Edelman of Ridderkerk, The Netherlands has provided positive identification of the Korean ships. How he obtained information is an interesting story and an example of ingenuity and perseverance for researchers. When his letters, in English to various South Korean shipyards were not answered, Edelman found a student who was studying the Korean languages to translate it into Korean. He sent these letters to the shipyards, and in a couple of weeks had all the information he asked for – in Korean, of course. Again the student translated for him.
The ship depict on the 30 won stamp is the KOREA STAR.


The following details are of the KOREA STAR.

Built as tanker under yard No 7308 by Hyundai Shipbuilding & Heavy Industries Co., Ulsan, South Korea for Asia Merchant Marine Co., Ltd, Ulsan.
Launched as KOREA STAR.
Tonnage 138,765 grt, 103,689 net, 266,982 dwt., dim. 344.43 x 51.90 x 20.595 m.
Powered by one Kawasaki steam turbine 36.000 shp, one shaft, speed 15.5 knots.
November 1976 completed.

Sold 1989 to Seastream Shipping Co., Nassau, managed by Aegean Ocean S.A., Greece and renamed MARINER.
She was arrested in China following a dispute over its bunkers. (date unknown)
She was before 07 May 2002 broken up in Shui Dong, China

Source: Marine News. http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz Watercraft Philately

[ptvisnes]

Thank you!
As "Korea Sun" she was included in my "Norvegian Shipslist" since she was norwegian owned from 1989, but as "Korea Star" she has to be excluded.