Blue Magpie (ship)

History
Name	Blue Magpie
Owner	Jinyu Shipping Company[1]
Port of registry	Panama[1]
Builder	Shin Kurushima Dockyard, Hiroshima, Japan[2]
Launched	1982[2]
Identification	IMO number: 8217673[2]
Fate	Wrecked at Newport, Oregon, 19 November 1983[1]
General characteristics
Type	Cargo ship
Tonnage	3,801 GT[2] 7,060 DWT[2]
Length	110 metres (360 ft)[1]
Crew	19[1]

Blue Magpie was a 105-metre Japanese freighter owned by Jinyu Shipping Company. She was registered at Panama, and chartered to a Dutch corporation.^[1] In November 1983, she ran aground at Newport, Oregon, spilling 285,000 litres of crude oil into the coastal waters.