Nippon Maru (ship, 1984)
Nippon Maru in Yokohama (2009)
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The Nippon Maru is a four-master , she is a sailing training ship of the Institute of Sea Training in Tokyo.
General
The Nippon Maru is the successor ship to the Nippon Maru from 1930. The keel-laying of the new Nippon Maru took place on April 11, 1983, almost a year later, on February 15, 1984 was the launch . The Nippon Maru was built by the Uraga Dockyard Sumitomo Heavy Industry in Uraga. The commissioning took place on September 16, 1984. The home port of the Nippon Maru is Tokyo .
Sails and masts
Sail area and sails
The total sail area of the Nippon 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 Nippon 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 Nippon Maru can be powered by four diesel engines (two sets) with 2,206 kW (3,000 hp). The speed with the engine is 14.33 knots , the range with the engine is 9,800 nm .
figurehead
The figurehead of Nippon Maru is Ranjo , she symbolizes the Japanese woman, in literary terms the name stands for the blue of the deep sea.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Schäuffelen, O. (1990): The last large sailing ships, Delius Klasing Verlag, p. 186
- ↑ a b c d Nippon Maru ( Memento of the original from November 27, 2011 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
