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Pacific University
Location: Japan
Opened: 1968-07-03[1][2][3]
Closed: 19xx
A drawing of the Pacific University, originally published on the July 13, 1969[4] edition of the Japanese newspaper The Tokyo Observer

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The Pacific University[5][6] (太平洋大学, Taiheiyo Daigaku), was a vessel converted from the Greek flag passenger liner "Margarita"[7][8] into a "floating college" by the Omori Research Institute of International Relations of Tokyo[9] (大森国際研究所, Omori Kokusai Kenkyujo) a.k.a. Omori Research Institute of International Affairs (大森国際問題研究所, Omori Kokusai Mondai Kenkyujo) in 1968[10][3][11], equipped with lecture rooms and, for recreation, a complete Sega amusement arcade containing a variety of equipment manufactured both by Sega Enterprises and the major American firms that the company represented in Japan at the time such as Rock-Ola, Williams, Bally, Midway, Chicago Coin, etc.

Born as "La Grande Victory"[12][13][14][15] (Official number[16]: 247247[15][17], MC Hull: 161[15], MARAD Type: VC2-S-AP3[15], operated by the Shepard Steamship Company[18][19][20] of Boston, Massachusetts) and built at the Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation[21] in 1945[22][23][24][25][26][12] for the United States Merchant Marine as a World War II troopship[27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34] (one of several ships used in Allied convoys during World War II, more precisely convoy CU 65 on April 8, 1945[35] and convoy UC 65B on April 27, 1945[36], and also one of over 700 navy ships used by the United States in Operation Magic Carpet[37]), it was acquired in 1947[15][38][39][40][41][42] by the Dutch government as troop transport and renamed "Waterman"[43][44][45][46][47] (meaning "Aquarius"), it was converted in 1952 into a migrant ship as part of the Holland America Line cruise line's fleet[48][49] and ultimately sold in 1963 to the Greek finance and shipping magnate Yiannis Latsis, a.k.a. John Spyridon Latsis[50] owner and founder of the Latsis Group[38], where it received the name "Margarita"[7][8] (Greek: ΜΑΡΓΑΡΙΤΑ, Μαργαρίτα, Μάργαρετ).

Created by Japan's longtime journalist Minoru Omori[51][52][53][54][55] (大森実, Omori Minoru), president and founder of the Omori Research Institute of International Relations of Tokyo, the Pacific University consisted of a series of ocean seminars on chartered ships, held five times between 1968[1][2][56][3] and 1969[4][54] which gave over three thousand young Japanese students a chance to visit the United States and Asian countries in the late 1960s[5][54][57].

On July 3, 1968, departing from Tokyo’s Harumi Pier, Sega Enterprises and seven hundred and fifty Japanese college students and business trainees, together with fifty instructors, embarked on the first of a series of five week study visits to the United States. During the trip Japanese college students could study languages, sociology, political science and international relations while at sea and meet with American university students during port calls at San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Honolulu.

The ship was laid up and docked at the Japanese port of Shimotsu (currently Kainan) on February 17, 1969[58][59][60], after her return from the first two Pacific University cruises[61] organized by the Omori Research Institute of International Relations of Tokyo, the first from Japan to Los Angeles and Honolulu and the second from Japan to Honolulu and San Francisco, and then sold for scrap in the winter of 1970 to Japanese company Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (三井物産株式会社, Mitsui Bussan Kabushiki Gaisha), being delivered in Hiroshima on February 18, 1970[62][60] and ultimately scrapped at Onomichi by ship breakers[61] Koshin Sangyo Co. Ltd[63] (興進産業株式会社, Koshin Sangyo Kabushiki Gaisha), where scrapping began in March 1970[58][60] and was completed three months later in June of the same year[62][60].

Sega games aboard

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Magazine articles

Main article: Pacific University/Magazine articles.

Photo gallery

  • SS La Grande Victory (1945-1947)

  • SS Waterman (1947-1952)

  • SS Waterman after conversion (1952-1963)

  • SS Margarita (1963-1970)

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  • Pacific University

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  • Shinichiro "Slim" Ogasawara [64][65][3][66][67] (left) of Sega Enterprises service department discussing loading details with a ship's officer

  • A Sega MotoPolo arcade cabinet being loaded into the Pacific University

  • Pacific University's students in respective uniform

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  • Thousands of well-wishers throng Tokyo's Harumi Pier on July 3, 1968 to bid bon voyage to the travelers of the Pacific University

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External links

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Tokyo Observer, "July 7, 1968" (JP; 1968-07-07), page 1
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Tokyo Observer, "July 14, 1968" (JP; 1968-07-14), page 1
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Cash Box, "August 10, 1968" (US; 1968-08-10), page 67
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 The Tokyo Observer, "July 13, 1969" (JP; 1969-07-13), page 5
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 http://www.beehive.co.jp/pu/pu_main.html (archive.today)
  6. ↑ http://www.beehive.co.jp/pu/pu_photo.html (archive.today)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 https://i.ibb.co/Fx79HQJ/SSMargarita-1966-08-15.png (archive.today)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 https://i.ibb.co/K0MZVTn/SS-Margarita-Latsis-Lines-GR-Postcard.jpg (archive.today)
  9. ↑ https://i.postimg.cc/kMH63Qrd/California-Oil-World-Volume-61-Page-5.png (archive.today)
  10. ↑ https://i.ibb.co/m9FxzT1/Marine-Digest-Volume-47-Issues-1-26-Page-5.jpg (archive.today)
  11. ↑ Billboard, "August 10, 1968" (US; 1968-08-10), page 39
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 http://shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/emergencylarge/koregon.htm (Wayback Machine: 2018-03-02 04:59)
  13. ↑ File:LaGrandeObserver US 2012-07-30.pdf, page 1
  14. ↑ File:LaGrandeObserver US 2012-07-30.pdf, page 2
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 File:SSLaGrandeVictory US Vessel Status Card.png
  16. ↑ File:SignalLettersoftheUnitedStatesMerchantMarine Book US 1947-01-01 (by United States Treasury Department, Bureau of Customs).pdf, page 6
  17. ↑ File:SignalLettersoftheUnitedStatesMerchantMarine Book US 1947-01-01 (by United States Treasury Department, Bureau of Customs).pdf, page 11
  18. ↑ File:OEstadodeSPaulo BR 1948-11-05; Page 51.png
  19. ↑ File:Towline US 1951-12.pdf, page 2
  20. ↑ File:FunnelMarkingsofSteamshipLines.jpg
  21. ↑ File:OregonShipbuildingCorporation US Brochure.pdf
  22. ↑ File:LaGrandeObserver US 1945-01-15 FrontPage.png
  23. ↑ https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/134105435/ (Wayback Machine: 2022-01-25 09:13)
  24. ↑ File:TheBosnsWhistle US 1945-03-09.pdf, page 1
  25. ↑ File:TheBosnsWhistle US 1945-03-09.pdf, page 5
  26. ↑ File:OregonShipbuildingCorporation US Brochure.pdf, page 19
  27. ↑ http://www.skylighters.org/special/vicships/ (archive.today)
  28. ↑ File:TroopshipsofWorldWarII Book US 1947-04 (by Roland Wilbur Charles).pdf, page 363
  29. ↑ File:TroopshipsofWorldWarII Book US 1947-04 (by Roland Wilbur Charles).pdf, page 364
  30. ↑ File:TheAtlantaConstitution US 1945-09-07 Page 16.png
  31. ↑ File:LaGrandeObserver US 1945-09-17 FrontPage.png
  32. ↑ File:TheBosnsWhistle US 1945-11-23.pdf, page 2
  33. ↑ https://www.dailybreeze.com/2009/07/04/tour-of-ss-lane-victory-puts-past-back-on-radar/ (archive.today)
  34. ↑ http://www.station131.co.uk/55th/Ground%20Crew/343rd/Humiston%20Harold%20H%20TSgt.htm (archive.today)
  35. ↑ http://www.warsailors.com/convoys/cuconvoys.html (Wayback Machine: 2022-01-05 01:46)
  36. ↑ http://www.warsailors.com/convoys/ucconvoys.html (Wayback Machine: 2019-03-21 13:04)
  37. ↑ https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/operation-magic-carpet-1945 (archive.today)
  38. ↑ 38.0 38.1 http://www.frontiernet.net/~hdebruyn/waterman/ss_waterman.HTM (Wayback Machine: 2019-01-24 14:56)
  39. ↑ File:RecommendationsoftheDepartmentofCommerceandtheMaritimeCommission Book US 1951 (by United States Congress Senate, Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce).pdf, page 124
  40. ↑ File:ZierikzeescheNieuwsbode NL 1947-06-20, Page 2.png
  41. ↑ File:RotterdamschParoolDeSchiedammer NL 1948-01-24, Page 1.png
  42. ↑ File:EilandenNieuws NL 1998-11-20, Page 5.png
  43. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/greekshippingmiracle/posts/the-1944-built-cargopassenger-ship-waterman-acquired-by-the-latsis-group-in-1963/1922815621160210/ (archive.today)
  44. ↑ https://bouillabaiseworkinprogress.blogspot.com/2013/08/ndsm-emigrantenschepen-ss-groote-beer.html (Wayback Machine: 2019-01-24 18:50)
  45. ↑ http://pier21.ns.ca/ships/waterman.html (Wayback Machine: 2000-03-02 10:10)
  46. ↑ File:DeVrijeZeeuw NL 1953-01-05, Page 1.png
  47. ↑ File:DeStem NL 1960-11-11, Page 2.png
  48. ↑ https://books.google.pt/books?id=_xiKDQAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&hl=pt-PT&pg=PT79&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
  49. ↑ http://www.frontiernet.net:80/~hdebruyn/waterman/aprilcover.jpg (Wayback Machine: 2006-07-18 18:24)
  50. ↑ http://www.greekshippingmiracle.org/en/founding-supporters/john-latsis.html (Wayback Machine: 2018-11-10 16:59)
  51. ↑ https://www.imago-images.com/st/0064879354 (archive.today)
  52. ↑ http://www.beehive.co.jp/index-e.htm (archive.today)
  53. ↑ https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/02/national/focusing-on-people-not-just-words/ (archive.today)
  54. ↑ 54.0 54.1 54.2 File:UCLADailyBruin US 1969-08-15, Page 11.png
  55. ↑ File:BerkeleyTribe US 1969-10, Page 4.png
  56. ↑ The Tokyo Observer, "August 4, 1968" (JP; 1968-08-04), page 1
  57. ↑ https://white.ap.teacup.com/something/1096.html (archive.today)
  58. ↑ 58.0 58.1 https://www.arendnet.com/waterman.htm (Wayback Machine: 2018-04-05 03:34)
  59. ↑ https://www.google.pt/search?q=MARGARITA+++lying+at+Shimotsu+since+17/2/69&biw=1366&bih=625&tbm=bks&sxsrf=ALeKk024PSm0CkbVfKng_z4nktYC11TBtw:1628025352283&ei=CLIJYfndENOD8gLA_KO4Dg&oq=MARGARITA+++lying+at+Shimotsu+since+17/2/69&gs_l= (archive.today)
  60. ↑ 60.0 60.1 60.2 60.3 https://www.marhisdata.nl/schip?id=7194 (archive.today)
  61. ↑ 61.0 61.1 http://ssmaritime.com/DutchVictoryTrio-1.htm (Wayback Machine: 2020-12-11 17:31)
  62. ↑ 62.0 62.1 https://werf-gusto.com/?p=27855 (archive.today)
  63. ↑ http://www.koshin-sangyo.com/outline/ (archive.today)
  64. ↑ Cash Box, "February 28, 1970" (US; 1970-02-28), page 62
  65. ↑ Billboard, "March 14, 1970" (US; 1970-03-14), page 76
  66. ↑ Cash Box, "March 20, 1965" (US; 1965-03-20), page 56/57 (56)
  67. ↑ Billboard, "March 20, 1965" (US; 1965-03-20), page 53
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