Cadet Ship.
Type 4-masted steel barque
GRT 2285
NRT 878
DWT -
Length 93.6 m (307.0 ft)
Beam 12.9 m (42.5 ft)
Draft 6.9 m (22.5 ft)
* 1930
Built of steel in Kobe to be used as a schoolship for the Japanese merchant marine, together with the Kaiwo Maru. She was rigged as a four-masted barque carrying royals over double top- and topgallant sails.
* 1984
Replaced by the new Nippon Maru. Now serves as museum in Yokohama.
http://sailing-ships.oktett.net/165.html
Japan SG1569,Anguilla SG694, Grenada SG3142.
Nippon Maru I
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john sefton
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aukepalmhof
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Re: Nippon Maru I
Built as a four mast-training vessel by the Japanese yard Kawasaki Dockyard Co., Ltd. at Kobe-Hondo for the Ministry of Transport of Japan.
27 Jan. 1930 launched under the name NIPPON MARU (I), sometimes called “Swan of the Pacific”.
Tonnage 22.85.77 gross, 743.53 net, displacement 4343 ton. Dim. 97.00 x 12.95 x 5.39m., length between pp. 79.25m, draught 6.90m.
Bark rigged, can carry 32 sails with 2.397 square meters. Ramage & Ferguson at Leith, U.K. manufactured the rigging.
Auxiliary power by two 6 cyl. diesel engines each 600 hp. One donkey boiler for her winches.
For stability she carried 640 tons of copper and 140 tons iron as ballast.
Crew 27 officers, 48 crew and accommodation for 120 cadets.
Managed by Kokai-Kunrensho at Tokyo.
04 October 1930 sailed from Yokohama for her maiden voyage to Ponape, Caroline Islands.
1943 During World War II her rigging was taken down, and the Japanese used her as a transport ship for war materials.
After the war she was employed in repatriation work to carry Japanese soldiers and civilians back to Japan. Made as such 29 voyages and brought home 25.423 persons.
In June 1952 refitted again in a four-mast barque.
December 1953 sailed again out after World War II for a training voyage and during this first voyage she made a call at Hilo in Hawaii.
17 September 1984 transferred to the city of Yokohama and her homeport was changed from Tokyo to Yokohama.
Refitted in a education and museumship, she is now moored afloat in a stone built dock, the formerly Mitsubishi Heavy Industry Yokohama dockyard No 1, which was built in 1899, now named the Nippon Maru Park.
28 April 1984 opened for the public.
(The easiest way to see the difference between her and the NIPPON MARU II, she carried stocked anchors, while the II is heaving the anchors in hawse pipes and the NIPPON MARU II looks almost the same, but the I has a yellow funnel with black top which the II did not have.)
Anguilla 1985 $2 sg694, scott? (
Azerbaijan 1996 200m sg349. scott615
Bhutan 25Nu MSsg?, scott?
Paraguay 1980 25g sg/, scott1974
Grenada 1996 $1 sg3142, scott2560e
Angola KZr 950.000.000
Sources: De Laatste Groote Zeilschepen by Otmar Schäuffelen. Sail Training and Cadet Ships by Harold A. Underhill. http://village.infoweb.ne.jp/~fwhv7340/ ... onmaru.htm
27 Jan. 1930 launched under the name NIPPON MARU (I), sometimes called “Swan of the Pacific”.
Tonnage 22.85.77 gross, 743.53 net, displacement 4343 ton. Dim. 97.00 x 12.95 x 5.39m., length between pp. 79.25m, draught 6.90m.
Bark rigged, can carry 32 sails with 2.397 square meters. Ramage & Ferguson at Leith, U.K. manufactured the rigging.
Auxiliary power by two 6 cyl. diesel engines each 600 hp. One donkey boiler for her winches.
For stability she carried 640 tons of copper and 140 tons iron as ballast.
Crew 27 officers, 48 crew and accommodation for 120 cadets.
Managed by Kokai-Kunrensho at Tokyo.
04 October 1930 sailed from Yokohama for her maiden voyage to Ponape, Caroline Islands.
1943 During World War II her rigging was taken down, and the Japanese used her as a transport ship for war materials.
After the war she was employed in repatriation work to carry Japanese soldiers and civilians back to Japan. Made as such 29 voyages and brought home 25.423 persons.
In June 1952 refitted again in a four-mast barque.
December 1953 sailed again out after World War II for a training voyage and during this first voyage she made a call at Hilo in Hawaii.
17 September 1984 transferred to the city of Yokohama and her homeport was changed from Tokyo to Yokohama.
Refitted in a education and museumship, she is now moored afloat in a stone built dock, the formerly Mitsubishi Heavy Industry Yokohama dockyard No 1, which was built in 1899, now named the Nippon Maru Park.
28 April 1984 opened for the public.
(The easiest way to see the difference between her and the NIPPON MARU II, she carried stocked anchors, while the II is heaving the anchors in hawse pipes and the NIPPON MARU II looks almost the same, but the I has a yellow funnel with black top which the II did not have.)
Anguilla 1985 $2 sg694, scott? (
Azerbaijan 1996 200m sg349. scott615
Bhutan 25Nu MSsg?, scott?
Paraguay 1980 25g sg/, scott1974
Grenada 1996 $1 sg3142, scott2560e
Angola KZr 950.000.000
Sources: De Laatste Groote Zeilschepen by Otmar Schäuffelen. Sail Training and Cadet Ships by Harold A. Underhill. http://village.infoweb.ne.jp/~fwhv7340/ ... onmaru.htm
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