Name on Japanese ships

Usage examples of maru.

International Greenpeace had made Yuduki Maru and her sister ships the focus of a whirlwind of controversy.

Only a handful of men aboard the Japanese freighter knew it, of course, but the Yuduki Maru would not be completing her voyage to the home islands.

Like her sister ship, the Akatsuki Maru, she had been an American cargo ship--sailing under the name Atlantic Crane--before her conversion to her new and highly specialized task.

Besides her usual crew of forty-five, the Yuduki Maru carried thirty armed guards.

Captain Koga, like most of his superiors, would have been far happier if a couple of Japanese Navy destroyers could have escorted Yuduki Maru on her long passage.

So far as any external threat was concerned, Yuduki Maru and Shikishima were alone on that wide, empty ocean.

Focusing world media attention on the threat presented by the Yuduki Maru and her cargo was a worthwhile cause certainly, but the voyage had rapidly degenerated into an unending tedium dragging on for day after day after sun-baked day.

For the past twenty-four hours, the Japanese plutonium ship Yuduki Maru, with two tons of weapons-grade plutonium aboard, has been off course.

If terrorists had indeed hijacked the Yuduki Maru, they were not likely to be sympathetic to U.

Only the SEALs could reach Yuduki Maru before she got close to a populated coast.

Huge areas of the coast, from Mogadishu to Cape Town, could be contaminated if the Yuduki Maru sank or caught fire.

Rumor had it that they had people planted inside the police personnel office who'd been able to reassign security force members, plant false IDs and fingerprint records, and even buy some of the officers of the government-subsidized company that owned Yuduki Maru and her cargo.

When Yuduki Maru had set sail from Cherbourg, ten of the seventy-five men aboard had been members of Eikyuni Shinananai Tori.

Perhaps because they hadn't been sure whether the course change was according to plan or not, Greenpeace had made no immediate announcement about the change in course, but as the Yuduki Maru had steadily neared the Madagascar coast, violating her pledge not to approach any coastline by less than two hundred miles, Beluga had radioed the news to the world.

KH-12 satellites had been tracking the Yuduki Maru almost continually since Thursday.