Daigo Fukuryū Maru
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"Lucky Dragon No. 5" redirects here. For the film named after the boat, see Lucky Dragon No. 5 (film). For other uses, see Lucky Dragon.
Daigo Fukuryū Maru (第五福龍丸, F/V Lucky Dragon 5) was a Japanese tuna fishing boat with a crew of 23 men which was contaminated by nuclear fallout from the United States Castle Bravo thermonuclear weapon test at Bikini Atoll on March 1, 1954.
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Launched | 1947 |
Status | Museum ship since 1976 |
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Type | Fishing boat |
Displacement | 140.86 t (139 long tons) |
Length | 28.56 m (93.7 ft) |
Beam | 5.9 m (19 ft) |
Propulsion | 250 hp (186 kW) engine |
Speed | 5 knots (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph) |
Crew | 23 |
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The crew suffered acute radiation syndrome (ARS) for a number of weeks after the Bravo test in March. All recovered from the immediate effects of the American test detonation except for Kuboyama Aikichi, the boat's chief radioman, who died on September 23, 1954, from complications of radiation sickness.[1] Kuboyama is considered the first victim of the hydrogen bomb and of test shot Castle Bravo.[2]