Japanese barque Kankō Maru
Kankō Maru (観光丸, Vision) was Japan's first steam-powered warship. It was presented to the Tokugawa shogunate ruling Japan during the Bakumatsu period as a gift from King William III of the Netherlands to assist Janus Henricus Donker Curtius, head of the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij (Netherlands Trading Society) in Japan in his efforts to establish formal diplomatic relations and the opening of Japanese ports to Dutch merchant vessels.
Kankō Maru, Japan's first steam warship, 1855 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Netherlands | |
| Name | Soembing |
| Owner | Royal Netherlands Navy |
| Builder | Amsterdam Naval Yards |
| Laid down | 25 October 1850 |
| Launched | 9 June 1852 |
| Commissioned | 21 February 1853 |
| Fate | Presented to Japan 1855 |
| Empire of Japan | |
| Name | Kankō Maru |
| Acquired | 25 August 1855 |
| Decommissioned | March 1876 |
| Fate | Scrapped 1876 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 781 t (769 long tons) |
| Length | 66 m (216 ft 6 in) o/a |
| Beam | 9.1 m (29 ft 10 in) |
| Draught | 4.2 m (13 ft 9 in) |
| Propulsion | Coal-fired steam engine, 150 hp (110 kW) |
| Sail plan | Jackass-barque-rigged |
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