Stern trawler/training vessel “Tenyo Maru” in the Kanmon Strait, Japan, 3rd October 1980
Owner: Government of Japan (Fisheries Agency of the Ministry of Agriculture & Forestry)
Flag: Japan
Builder: Moho Zosensho K.K., Shimizu
Gross tons: 518
Length overall: 43.3 m
Engine; 6-cylinder diesel, 1,000 b.h.p., by Akasaka Tekkosho, Yaizu
Speed: 11 knots
Completed March 1964
Sold 1986 to Government of Thailand (Department of Fisheries), renamed “Samruat Pramong 4” (seems to have operated as a research vessel).
A page on www.researchvessels.org/world_ship_names.htm (not dated) gives the class as NK but the ship was “not found” on NK's website today.