Built as a trawler research vessel under yard No 321 by Wakamatsu shipyard, Kitakyushu, Japan for the Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.
Launched as the GENKAI.
Tonnage 138 grt, length 36.21 x 6.22 x 3.02m.
Powered by one Niigata diesel engine, 1,200 hp, speed?
1982 Completed.
1998 Sold to Braveheart Shipping Co. Ltd., New Zealand renamed in BRAVEHEART, registered in Wellington, New Zealand.
01 August 1998 arrived in Wellington.
Refitted in a research expedition vessel, has accommodation for 12 passengers and 5 crew.
Tonnage 177 grt, 97 dwt.
2000 Transferred to Stoney Creek Shipping Co. Ltd., Palmerston North, New Zealand, not renamed.
She has visited the Kermadecs Islands many times and makes research expeditions to the Antarctic, Pacific, Kergeulen, South America and Pitcairn Island.
She has made charter voyages for the U.K. Government, New Zealand Department of Conservation and National Geographic.
2011 In service, same name and owners, IMO No 8123066.
Pitcairn Island 2011 $2.10 sg?, scott?
Source: New Zealand Maritime News. http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz various web-sites.
Compendium of Australasian Merchant Ships 1831-2008 by Robert Tompkins.