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Kanrin Maru, Japan's first screw-driven steam warship, 1855.
History
Japan
Name
Kanrin Maru
Ordered
1853
Builder
L. Smit en Zoon, Kinderdijk, Netherlands
Acquired
1857
Decommissioned
1871
Fate
Wrecked in a typhoon, 1871
General characteristics
Class and type
Bali-class sloop
Displacement
300 t (295 long tons)
Length
50 m (164 ft 1 in) o/a
Beam
7.3 m (23 ft 11 in)
Propulsion
Coal-fired steam engine, 100 hp
Sail plan
3-masted sail
Speed
6 knots (6.9 mph; 11 km/h)
Armament
12 guns
Kanrin Maru(咸臨丸, Unyielding) was Japan's first sail and screw-driven steam corvette (the first steam-driven Japanese warship, Kankō Maru, was a side-wheeler). She was ordered in 1853 from the Netherlands, the only Western country with which Japan had diplomatic relations throughout its period of sakoku (seclusion), by the shōgun's government, the Bakufu. She was delivered on September 21, 1857 (with the name Japan), by Lt. Willem Huyssen van Kattendijke of the Dutch navy. The ship was used at the newly established Naval School of Nagasaki in order to build up knowledge of Western warship technology.
Kanrin Maru, as a screw-driven steam warship, represented a new technological advance in warship design which had been introduced in the West only ten years earlier with HMS Rattler (1843). The ship was built by Fop Smit's in Kinderdijk, the Netherlands (later known as L. Smit en Zoon). The virtually identical screw-steamship with schooner-rig Bali of the Dutch navy was also built here in 1856. She allowed Japan to get its first experience with some of the newest advances in ship design.[1]
^Hendrik Caspar Romberg's account of the Sangoku-maru is a scant record of the brief attempt by the Tokugawa shogunate to create a sea-going vessel in the 1780s. The ship sank; and the tentative project was abandoned when the political climate in Edo shifted. See Timon Screech. (2006). Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822, pp. 48-49., p. 48, at Google Books
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seafood and souvenirs. It is also possible to go with the Japanese warship KanrinMaru on a sightseeing pleasure cruise of the Great Seto Bridge. Public-transit...
plaque marking the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the Japanese ship KanrinMaru was dedicated March 17, 2010 at Pier 9 on the Embarcadero in San Francisco...
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