Editing MV Doña Paz (section)

{{Short description|Ship involved in deadliest peacetime maritime disaster}}
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| infobox caption = MV ''Doña Paz''
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{{Infobox ship image
| Ship image = Doña Paz at Tacloban.jpg
| Ship caption = ''Doña Paz'' berthed at [[Tacloban]] port in 1984
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| Ship country = [[Japan]]
| Ship flag = {{shipboxflag|Japan}}
| Ship name = *''Himeyuri Maru''
| Ship owner = RKK Line
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| Ship registry = [[Kagoshima]]
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| Ship builder = Onomichi Dockyard
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| Ship yard number = 118
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| Ship launched = April 25, 1963
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| Ship out of service = October 1975
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| Ship fate = Sold to [[Sulpicio Lines]]
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| Ship country = [[Philippines]]
| Ship flag = {{shipboxflag|Philippines|1986}}
| Ship name = ''Don Sulpicio''
| Ship renamed = '''Doña Paz''' in 1981
| Ship owner = [[Sulpicio Lines]]
| Ship image = [[File:"3149331831 672899de24.jpg"]]
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| Ship registry = [[Manila]]
| Ship route = [[Tacloban]] – [[Catbalogan]] – [[Manila]]
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| Ship refit = After a fire onboard on June 5, 1979
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| Ship acquired = October 1975
| Ship maiden voyage = January 20, 1976
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| Ship out of service = December 20, 1987
| Ship identification = {{IMO|5415822}}
| Ship fate = Caught fire and sank after a collision with the [[MT Vector|MT ''Vector'']] on December 20, 1987
| Ship notes = Deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in history 
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| Ship type = [[Passenger ferry]]
| Ship tonnage = *2,324 [[Gross register tonnage|GRT]]
*{{DWT|1,192}}
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| Ship length = {{cvt|93.1|m|ft}}
| Ship beam = {{cvt|13.6|m}}
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| Ship depth = {{cvt|8.05|m}}
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| Ship power = *1{{nbsp}}×{{nbsp}}Niigata Iron Works M8T54S 4-stroke diesel engine
*{{convert|4,500|bhp|kW|abbr=on}}
| Ship propulsion = 4-bladed single screw
| Ship speed = Service: {{convert|18|kn|0|lk=in|abbr=on}}. Max: {{convert|20.2|kn|0|abbr=on}}
| Ship capacity = 1,518 passengers
| Ship crew = 66
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'''MV ''Doña Paz''''' was a [[Japan|Japanese]]-built and [[Philippines|Philippine]]-registered passenger [[ferry]] that sank after it collided with the [[tanker (ship)|oil tanker]] ''[[MT Vector|Vector]]'' on December 20, 1987. Built by Onomichi Zosen of [[Hiroshima]], Japan, the ship was launched on April 25, 1963 as the '''''Himeyuri Maru''''' with a passenger capacity of 608. In October 1975, the ''Himeyuri Maru'' was bought by [[Sulpicio Lines]] and renamed the '''''Don Sulpicio'''''. After a fire aboard in June 1979, the ship was refurbished and renamed ''Doña Paz''.

Traveling from [[Leyte Island]] to the Philippine [[capital city|capital]], [[Manila]], the vessel was seriously overcrowded, with at least 2,000 passengers not listed on the [[manifest (transportation)|manifest]]. It has also been claimed that the ship did not have a radio and that the life jackets were locked away. However, official blame was directed at the tanker ''Vector'', which collided with the ''Doña Paz'' and was found to be unseaworthy and to be operating without a license, a lookout, or a qualified master. With an estimated death toll of 4,385 people and only 25 survivors, it remains the deadliest [[List of maritime disasters in the 20th century#Peacetime|peacetime maritime disaster]] in history.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-04-01|title=Ferry collides with oil tanker near Manila - HISTORY|work=HISTORY |url=https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/ferry-collides-with-oil-tanker-near-manila|access-date=2020-08-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401163352/https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/ferry-collides-with-oil-tanker-near-manila|archive-date=April 1, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=7 of the World's Deadliest Shipwrecks|url=https://www.britannica.com/list/7-of-the-worlds-deadliest-shipwrecks|access-date=2020-08-07|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en}}</ref>