Kaiwo Maru (ship, 1989)
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The Kaiwo Maru (海王 丸 | Kaiō-Maru) is a four- master . She is a sailing training ship from the Institute of Sea Training in Tokyo.
General
The Kaiwo Maru is the successor ship to the Kaiwo Maru (I). She is the sister ship of the Nippon Maru .
The keel-laying of the Kaiwo Maru took place on July 8, 1988, almost a year later, on March 7, 1989, was the launch . The Kaiwo Maru was built by the Uraga Dockyard Sumitomo Heavy Industry in Uraga. The commissioning took place on September 9, 1989. The home port of the Kaiwo Maru is Tokyo .
Sails and masts
Sail area and sails
The entire sail area of the Kaiwo Maru is 2760 m², spread over 36 sails. The sails from the 36 sails are divided into double topsails , double bullsails , royals and on the mizzen mast : lower besan, upper besan, mizzen top sail.
Masts
The Kaiwo Maru has four masts and a bowsprit.
- Foremast 42 m
- Main mast 44.5 m
- Cross mast 43 m
- Mizzen mast 34 m
- Bowsprit 16.5 m
drive
In addition to the sails, the Kaiwo Maru can be powered by four diesel engines (two sets) with 2,206 kW (3,000 PS). The speed with the machine is about 14 kn , the range with the machine is 9,800 nm .
figurehead
The figurehead of the Kaiwo Maru is "Konjo", it symbolizes innocence in classic dignity.
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ a b c d O. Schäuffelen: The last great sailing ships. Delius Klasing Verlag, 1990, ISBN 3-7688-0483-6 , p. 188.
- ↑ a b c d Kaiwo Maru ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , National Institute for Sea Training
