Japanese barque Kankō Maru
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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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.