Kaiwo Maru (1930)

The Kaiwo Maru (Japanese海王 丸, Kaio -maru, dt ship Sea King ), a four-masted barque rigged as a Japanese training ship, ran in February 1930 on the Kawasaki shipyard in Kobe for the school of the Merchant Marine of the stack.

She was like the sister ship Nippon Maru in Leith, Scotland, by the renowned shipyard Ramage & Ferguson Ltd.. designed, had built, for example, København. The Shipyard also supplied the whole rig for the two four-masted barques. Both ships sailed for the Japanese Ministry of Education (文部省) as training ships on the Pacific. Since 1943, the Kaiwo Maru were the Nippon Maru and the State Maritime School (航海 训练 所) was assumed.

The Kaiwo Maru made ​​several trips to the USA, Hawaii and other Pacific ports. During the Second World War, the yards were removed, and the ship came to the Ministry of Postal Services (逓 信 省) as freight motor glider within the Japanese waters are used. After the war she was in the repatriation of Japanese nationals, civil and military, are used. Since 1952 she went again as a training ship and also again visited the United States, Canada and the U.S. East Coast. In 1989 she was replaced by the new Kaiwo Maru. She has traveled 49 times around the world in accordance with its almost 60-year Seekarriere total a distance.

Ship data

  • Launched: February 1930
  • Builder: Kawasaki Dockyard Co. Ltd., Kobe, Japan.
  • Survey: 2,284 gross register tons (GRT ), 878 net registered tonnage ( NRT)
  • Length Overall ( LOA): 97 m
  • Fuselage length: 93.5 m
  • Width: 12.92 m
  • Depth: 7.03 m
  • Draught: 6.4 m
  • Mast height above water: 46 m
  • Sail area: 2,397 m²
  • Machine: Auxiliary diesel, 2,600 hp
  • Total number of trained seamen: 11,425
  • Total distance covered: 1.95 million km
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