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18-441: Heian Maru can refer to: A number of steamships including: SS Komagata Maru , a Japanese cargo ship in service 1924-26 SS  Heian Maru  (1902) , a Japanese cargo ship in service 1930-33 SS  Heian Maru  (1917) , a Japanese cargo ship in service 1917-45 or later SS  Heian Maru  (1920) , a Japanese cargo ship in service 1920-44 Heian Maru ,

36-589: A Japanese ocean liner launched in 1930 and sunk in 1944 while serving as a submarine tender MV Heian Maru , a number of ships with this name Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Heian Maru . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Heian_Maru&oldid=1154399356 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

54-628: A Status Report of the vessel's Special Survey to be reviewed by Marine Safety. Registries charge a registration fee. There must be a "genuine link" between a vessel and its flag state. Article 5(1) of the Geneva Convention on the High Seas of 1958, which came into effect in 1962, requires that "the state must effectively exercise its jurisdiction and control in administrative, technical and social matters over ships flying its flag." There are 63 states party to that Convention. The principle

72-580: A flag state be linked to its ships either by having an economic stake in the ownership of its ships or by providing mariners to crew the ships. To come into force, the 1986 treaty requires 40 signatories whose combined tonnage exceeds 25% of the world total. To date, only 14 countries have signed the treaty. National or closed registries typically require that a ship be owned by national interests, and at least partially crewed by its citizens. Open registries do not have such requirements; some offer on-line registration, and one guaranteed completion in less than

90-535: A small number of passengers. She had a single screw , driven by a three-cylinder triple-expansion steam engine built by David Rowan & Co of Glasgow that was rated at 288 NHP and gave her a speed of 11 knots (20 km/h). Dampfschiffs Rhederei "Hansa" registered Stubbenhuk at Hamburg . The company ran mainly cargo services between Hamburg, Canada and the United States . On 19 October 1890, Stubbenhuk left Hamburg on her maiden voyage, which

108-622: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages SS Komagata Maru Komagata Maru ( Japanese : 駒形丸 , Hepburn : Komagata Maru ) was a cargo steamship that was built in Scotland in 1890, was in German ownership until 1913, and then had a succession of Japanese owners until she was wrecked in 1926. She was launched as Stubbenhuk , renamed Sicilia in 1894, Komagata Maru in 1913 and Heian Maru in 1924. In 1914 Komagata Maru

126-491: Is open only to ships of its own nation is known as a traditional or national register . Registers that are open to foreign-owned ships are known as open registries and are sometimes called flags of convenience . Ship registration has been done since business on the seas has been important. Originally meant to control ships carrying cargo in European seafaring countries, it was used to make sure ships were being built in

144-1047: The Japanese-ruled Kwantung Leased Territory . Shinyei Kisen Goshi owned one other ship, and four or five people owned the company. It was from Shinyei Kisen that Sikh migrants chartered her in 1914 to take them across the Pacific to British Columbia . Her holds were cleaned and fitted out with latrines, wooden benches, a meeting room and a Sikh Gurdwara . On 4 April 1914, she left Hong Kong carrying 150 migrants. She embarked further Indian migrants at Shanghai , Moji and Yokohama . On 23 May, she reached Vancouver carrying 376 migrants, only 24 of whom were allowed to disembark. She lay at anchor in Vancouver Harbour until 23 July, when she left taking her remaining migrants back to Japan and India. By 1917, Komagata Maru ' s Japanese code letters were QBHP. Her Japanese official number

162-582: The country (a practice known as cabotage ). The country of registration is a ship's flag state and determines its nationality as well as which country's laws govern its operation and the behavior of its crew. A country will specify legal requirements for registration of a ship in its domestic laws, for example, in the UK, the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 details British law on entitlement for ship registration, including qualifications, pre-conditions and

180-627: The local country, with crews predominantly of the local country. Since then, ship registration has been used to document ships for ownership. Documentation provides definite evidence of nationality for international purposes and provides financing opportunities with the availability of preferred mortgages on documented vessels. Vessels that operate internationally or cross international borders are required to be registered. Some jurisdictions also require vessels that only operate in territorial waters to register on their national register, and some forbid foreign-flagged vessels from trading between ports within

198-440: The machinery for registration. Each registry has its own rules as to the types of vessels that it will accept for registration. The Liberian Registry, for example, registers seagoing vessels of more than 500 net tons that conduct foreign trade. Vessels over the age of 20 require a waiver as well as the vessel's classification society being willing to issue statutory certificates to the vessel. Vessels 15 years or older must have

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216-496: The vessel and is required to inspect it regularly, certify the ship's equipment and crew, and issue safety and pollution prevention documents. The organization which actually registers the ship is known as its registry. Registries may be governmental or private agencies. In some cases, such as the United States' Alternative Compliance Program, the registry can assign a third party to administer inspections. A register that

234-605: Was chartered to take 376 Sikh and other migrants from the Far East to Canada , where they wished to settle. This resulted in the Komagata Maru incident , in which Canadian immigration authorities in Vancouver , British Columbia refused to let most of them disembark. In 1890, Charles Connell and Company of Scotstoun , Glasgow built a pair of cargo steamships for Dampfschiffs Rhederei "Hansa". Yard number 167

252-656: Was 25107. In 1917, Kawauchi Goshi Kaisha acquired her, and by 1919, she was equipped for wireless telegraphy . In 1921, Yamashita Kisen KK acquired her and registered her in Fusan in Japanese-ruled Korea . In 1923, Kabafuto Kisen KK acquired her and registered her in Nishinomiya . In 1924, Kasahara Shoji KK acquired her, renamed her Heian Maru and registered her in Osaka . On 11 February 1926, Heian Maru

270-400: Was launched on 20 May as Grimm , and yard number 168 was launched on 13 August as Stubbenhuk . She was completed that September. Stubbenhuk ' s registered length was 329 ft (100 m), her beam was 41.5 ft (12.6 m) and her depth was 25.8 ft (7.9 m). Her tonnages were 2,943  GRT and 1,921  NRT . She was mainly a cargo ship, but had berths for

288-743: Was repeated in Article 91 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 1982 (UNCLOS), which came into effect in 1994. That Convention has 167 parties. In 1986, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development attempted to solidify the genuine link concept in the United Nations Convention on Conditions for Registration of Ships . The Convention on Conditions for Registration of Ships would require that

306-461: Was steaming around the coast of Hokkaido from Otaru to Muroran when she was wrecked near Cape Sotomari  [ ja ] . Ship registration International law requires that every ship be registered in a country, called its flag state . A ship is subject to the law of its flag state. It is usual to say that the ship sails under the flag of the country of registration. A ship's flag state exercises regulatory control over

324-706: Was to Quebec and Montreal . In 1892, Hamburg America Line (HAPAG) took over Dampfschiffs Rhederei "Hansa". By April 1892, Stubbenhuk ' s route included calls at Antwerp , and in December 1893 she called at Baltimore . By 1893 her German code letters were RJCS. In 1894 HAPAG absorbed the Hansa fleet into its own and renamed its ships. Grimm and Stubbenhuk became Scotia and Sicilia respectively. In 1913, Shinyei Kisen Goshi Kaisha bought Sicilia , renamed her Komagata Maru , and registered her in Dairen in

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