Hecate (III)

In September 1945 this vessel was present in Tokyo Bay during Japanese surrender ceremony. On Friday October 12, 1979, The Straits Times (Singapore) reported that the vessel had been chartered by "The World Conference on Religion and Peace" and was sinking alongside a wharf at the Guan Bee Slipway where it had been taken for repairs. The owners did not pay the bill and she was arrested by the Port of Singapore Authority. On September 22, 2026 Frank Nyross wrote "My name is Frank Nyross and in the past I sent a number of articles on the M. V. Hecate when I owned it at Saigon Vietnam and later sold it in Singapore after fleeing Saigon. This vessel is not and never was the "Prince Hecate". Its origin was the US Navy YMS 467 dtd 1943 / 1947. I realize that this reads like a lot of BS but 1975 / 1976 were trying times in SE Asia. I have the actual Bills of sale for the Hecate to me and from me from the Panama Counsel at Singapore. The Info on the Roland I got from a "Freedom of Info Act" source. I note in the History of the Boat the period of when I sold it is wrong. I sold it to Richard L. Pascoe of Inampco at Singapore in Aug 1975.

He renamed it "Roland" and had it contracted to the "Asian Conference on Religion and Peace" ACRP / "World Conference on Religion and Peace" WCRP. This hire in 1976 representing the Religious Groups was headed by a Renown Vietnamese Buddhist Monk, Thich Nhat Hanh who leased the Hecate now named "Roland" to just sail the South China Sea picking up "Vietnamese Boat People" that had fled the new Communist regime. The boat sank in Singapore Oct 1979. This contract of which I had no part in or was involved with was controversial to say the least. At it's height the "Roland" had 467 Vietnamese people on board sailing around trying to find some country that would take the refugees."