Kanrin Maru, Japan's first screw-driven steam warship, 1855.
Career
Builder:	The Netherlands
Ordered:	1853
Acquired by Japan:	1855
Decommissioned:	1871
Fate:	Wrecked 1871
General Characteristics
Displacement:	300 t
Length:	50 m oa
Beam:	7.3 m
Draught:	?
Propulsion:	3-masted sail 100 hp steam engine The Kanrinmaru (1855). ... 1855 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Image File history File links Japanese-War-Ensign. ... 1853 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1855 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1871 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
Fuel:	Coal
Speed:	6 knots (10 km/h)
Complement:	?
Armament:	12 guns

Kanrin Maru (Japanese: 咸臨丸) was Japan's first sail and screw-driven steam warship. She was ordered in 1853 from the Netherlands, the only country with which Japan had diplomatic relations throughout its period of Seclusion, by the Shogun's government, the Bakufu. She was delivered in 1855, barely one year after the forcible opening of Japan to trade by Commodore Perry. The ship was used at the newly established Naval School of Nagasaki in order to build up knowledge of Western warship technology. 1853 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... In Japanese history, a shogun (将軍 shōgun) was the practical ruler of Japan for most of the time from 1192 to the Meiji Era beginning in 1868. ... For the James Clavell novel, see Shogun or for the TV Miniseries. ... 1855 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Matthew Calbraith Perry (April 10, 1794 - March 4, 1858) was the Commodore of the U.S. Navy who forced the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854, under the threat of military force. ... Megane-bashi (Spectacles Bridge) Nagasaki â–¶ (help· info) (長崎市; -shi, literally long peninsula) is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture. ...

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). She allowed Japan to get its first experience with some of the newest advances in ship design. 1843 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

First Japanese embassy to the US

Five years later, the Bakufu sent Kanrin Maru on a mission to the United States, clearly wanting to make a point to the world that Japan now mastered western navigation techniques and western ship technologies. On 19 January 1860, the Kanrin Maru, sailed by Katsu Kaishu (as ship captain), John Manjiro and Fukuzawa Yukichi, left Uraga for San Francisco. Katsu Kaishu (勝 海舟 Katsu Kaishū, 1823-99) was a stateman in Japan in the late shogunate period who held an important part in the Tokugawa shogunate in rare occasions. ... Nakahama John Manjiro. ... Fukuzawa Yukichi, c. ... Map of Tokyo Bay, 1917 The Uraga Channel (浦賀水道 Uraga-suido) is a waterway connecting Tokyo Bay to the Sagami Gulf. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ...

They became the second official Japanese embassy to cross the Pacific Ocean, around 250 years after the embassy of Hasekura Tsunenaga to Mexico and then Europe in 1614, on the Japanese-built galleon San Juan Bautista. Hasekuras portrait during his mission in Rome in 1615, by Claude Deruet, Coll. ... Events April 5 - In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe. ... San Juan Bautista (“St John Baptist”) (originally called Date Maru, 伊達丸 in Japanese) was one of Japans first Japanese-built Western-style sail warships. ...

Kanrin Maru was accompanied by an United States Navy ship, the USS Powhatan. From San Francisco, the delegation continued the trip to Washington via Panama on U.S. vessels. USS Powhatan was a United States Navy sidewheel steam frigate. ...

The first ever Japanese delegation to the United States, arrived on Kanrin Maru in 1860.

The official objective of the mission was to send the first ever Japanese embassy to the US, and to ratify the new treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation between the United States and Japan. The mission also tried, in vain, to obtain a revision of some of the unequal clauses of the treaties signed during Commodore Perry's negotiation in 1854.
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Boshin war

By the end of 1867, the Bakufu was attacked by pro-imperial forces, initiating the Boshin War which led to the Meiji Restoration. Towards the end of the conflict, in September 1868, after several defeats by the Bakufu, Kanrin Maru was one of the eight modern ships led by Enomoto Takeaki towards the northern part of Japan, in his final attempt to wage a counter-attack against pro-imperial forces. For the James Clavell novel, see Shogun or for the TV Miniseries. ... The Boshin War (戊辰戦争 Boshin Sensō, literally War of the Year of the Dragon) was fought in 1868-1869 between the Tokugawa Shogunate and the pro-Imperial forces in Japan. ... The Meiji Restoration (Japanese: 明治維新, Meiji-ishin), also known as the Meiji Ishin, Revolution or Renewal, was a chain of events that led to a change in Japans political and social structure. ... 1868 (MDCCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... Enomoto Takeaki at the time of Republic of Ezo in 1869. ...

The fleet encountered a typhoon on its way northward, and Kanrin Maru, having suffered damaged, was forced to rally Shimizu harbour, where she was captured by Imperial forces.

Enomoto Takeaki finally made a redition in May 1869, and after the end of the conflict, Kanrin Maru was used by the new Imperial government for the development of the northern island of Hokkaido.

She was lost there in a typhoon in 1871, on the way between Hakodate and Esashi. View of Hakodate from Mountain Hakodate (函館市; -shi) is a city and port located in Oshima, Hokkaido, Japan. ... Esashi is the name of several places. ...

Kanrin Maru today

In 1990, a replica twice the size of the original was ordered for manufacture in the Netherlands, according to the original plans. The ship was visible in the theme park of Huis Ten Bosch in Kyushu, in southern Japan. It is now used as a sightseeing ship to the Naruto whirlpool from Minami Awaji harbour. Kyushu region, Japan Kyushu (九州) is the third largest island of Japan and most southerly and westerly of the four main islands. ... Naruto strait, view from Awaji, with flow from the right The Naruto whirlpool is a tidal whirlpool in the Naruto strait, a channel between Naruto in Tokushima and Awaji Island in Hyogo, Japan. ... Awaji Island (Jp. ...

See also

Ship replica (including a list of ship replicas) A Ship replica is a reconstruction of a no longer existing ship. ...

References

• "Steam, Steel and Shellfire. The steam warship 1815-1905" Conway's History of the ship ISBN 0785814132
• "The origins of Japanese Trade Supremacy. Development and technology in Asia from 1540 to the Pacific War" Christopher Howe, The University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0226354857
• "End of the Bakufu and the Restoration at Hakodate" (Japanese 函館の幕末・維新) ISBN 4120016994

External link

• The Kanrin Maru rebuilt
• Naruto whirpool with the Kanrin Maru