Setter V
Ship Number
1395
Vessel Type
Whale Catcher
Built
A&J Inglis
Launch Date
May 24, 1949
Delivered
September 19, 1949
Owner
United Whalers Ltd
Weight
586 grt
BP Length
146 feet
Breadth
29-6 feet
No. of Screws
Single
Speed (approx)
15 knots
Propulsion
1 x piston steam engine (reciprocating), compound exp., 4 cylinder, syl.diam.: 14.6 "-34.3" -34.3 "-14.6", stroke / stroke: 32.5 ", 2000 IHK / 331 NHK. Built by H&W, Glasgow.
Official No.
183106
Registered
London
Fate
Scrapped
Setter V

[Photo by Frederick W. Power, Hitra.]
She went directly to the Antarctic to join the Fl/F Balaena.
 
The vessel was involved in a test project of killing whale with a gas driven harpoon with an electric discharge. The vessel was Involved in a test project of killing whale with a harpoon gas driven with an electric discharge. She was equipped with a 102 mm Westley Richards gun for gas driven harpoon. She was equipped with a 102 mm gun Westley Richards for gas-driven harpoon.
 
1950 In the pelagic seasons of 1950/51 to 1959/60 she was catching to Fl/F Balaena in the Antarctic, except in the summer season of 1954 she was hired by the whale station in Saldanha Bay, South-Africa.
 
1960 Sold in August to Kyokuyo Hogei KK, Tokio. Renamed Otori Maru 22 catching for the factory Kyokuyo Maru 2 and Kyokuyo Maru 3 in Antarctic and the Northern part of the Pacific Ocean.
 
1966 Broken in Japan.