Built as steel, bark rigged sailing school vessel by the Osaka Iron Factory Co. Ltd., Osaka for the Japanese Government (Ministry for Agriculture and Forests)
02 February 1909 launched as the UNYO MARU. (Unyo means large cloud or hawk.)
Tonnage 448.3 gross, 197.6 net. dim. 45.90 x 8.10 x 5.00m. length bpp. 41.00m. Draught 3.60.
Powered by an 8-cyl. triple expansion steam engine.
Sail area 540m².
Crew 25 with accommodation for 15 to 30 boys.
1909 completed.
First in use as research vessel and school ship, researching fish-stocks and crab fishing on the banks off Japan, also training in catching whales, but around the 1930 she disappears from the registers, and was used thereafter before World War II as a stationary school-ship in Tokyo, moored alongside the MEIJI MARU.
She survived the war and after the war she was moored in the Sumida River.
Today after restorations to her old state, in use as a museum ship moored along the campus of the University of Fishery Sciences in Tokyo.
On Angola 1999 KZr950.000.00
Source: De Laatste Grote Zeilschepen by Schauffelen. Sail Training and Cadet Ships by Underhill.
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