The museum ship Nippon Maru

Friday, 1 June 2018 - 01:00 pm (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination:
Category/Kategorie: Tall ships, Yacht of the Month
Reading Time:  3 minutes

Nippon Maru Memorial Park © Captain76/cc-by-sa-3.0

Nippon Maru Memorial Park © Captain76/cc-by-sa-3.0

Nippon Maru is a Japanese museum ship and former training vessel. She is permanently docked in Yokohama harbor, in Nippon Maru Memorial Park. She was built by Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation in Kobe, and was launched on 27 January 1930 alongside her sister ship Kaiwo Maru.

She was operated by the Tokyo Institute for Maritime Training to train officers for Japan’s merchant marine. At the beginning of World War II, her sailing rig was removed and she served as a training and postwar transport motorship. In 1952, her rig was reinstalled and she resumed her training voyages until she was replaced in September 1984 by her successor, also named Nippon Maru.

© Piotrus/cc-by-sa-3.0 © Kanchi1979/cc-by-sa-4.0 © Nandaro/cc-by-sa-3.0 © panoramio.com - shikabane taro/cc-by-3.0 Nippon Maru Memorial Park © Captain76/cc-by-sa-3.0 Landmark Tower and Nippon Maru © flickr.com - ken_H/cc-by-sa-2.0
<
>
Landmark Tower and Nippon Maru © flickr.com - ken_H/cc-by-sa-2.0
Nippon Maru measures 97 metres (318 ft) long, with a beam of 12.95 metres (42.5 ft) and a draft of 6.90 metres (22.6 ft). Her gross tonnage is 2,286. She is rigged as a four-masted barque, with 32 sails covering 2,397 square metres (25,800 sq ft), and two 600-horsepower diesel engines for auxiliary functions. During her career as a training ship, she was manned by a crew of 27 officers, 48 seamen, and 120 trainees.

Read more on Nippon Maru, japanvisitor.com – Yokohama Port Museum & Nippon Maru Sailing Ship and Wikipedia Nippon Maru. Learn more about the use of photos. To inform you about latest news most of the city, town or tourism websites offer a newsletter service and/or operate Facebook pages/Twitter accounts. In addition more and more destinations, tourist organizations and cultural institutions offer Apps for your Smart Phone or Tablet, to provide you with a mobile tourist guide (Smart Traveler App by U.S. Department of State - Weather report by weather.com - Global Passport Power Rank - Travel Risk Map - Democracy Index - GDP according to IMF, UN, and World Bank - Global Competitiveness Report - Corruption Perceptions Index - Press Freedom Index - World Justice Project - Rule of Law Index - UN Human Development Index - Global Peace Index - Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index). If you have a suggestion, critique, review or comment to this blog entry, we are looking forward to receive your e-mail at comment@wingsch.net. Please name the headline of the blog post to which your e-mail refers to in the subject line.




Recommended posts:

Share this post: (Please note data protection regulations before using buttons)

Rue Crémieux in Paris

Rue Crémieux in Paris

[caption id="attachment_206469" align="aligncenter" width="590"] © flickr.com - Arthur Weidmann/cc-by-sa-2.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Rue Crémieux is a one-block pedestrian street in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, originally built as workers' housing. The street has been widely recommended to tourists for its quaint painted housefronts, and has become a popular destination for filming and for social media photos. The street was planned as the Millaud development in 1857, to provide housing for workers, and almost a...

[ read more ]

Cologne - 2000 years of history

Cologne - 2000 years of history

[caption id="attachment_160217" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Rhine Garden © Raimond Spekking/cc-by-sa-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city (after Berlin, Hamburg and Munich), and is the largest city both in the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants. Cologne is located on both sides of the Rhine River. The city's famous Cologne Cathedral (Kölner D...

[ read more ]

Ybor City in Tampa, the Cigar Capital of the World

Ybor City in Tampa, the Cigar Capital of the World

[caption id="attachment_229149" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Centro Ybor complex with a TECO line car in front © Peter K Burian/cc-by-sa-4.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Ybor City is a historic neighborhood just northeast of downtown Tampa, Florida, United States. It was founded in the 1880s by Vicente Martinez-Ybor and other cigar manufacturers and populated by thousands of immigrants, mainly from Cuba, Spain, and Italy. For the next 50 years, workers in Ybor City's cigar factories rolled hundreds of millions of cigars annual...

[ read more ]

Theme Week Normandy - Bayeux

Theme Week Normandy - Bayeux

[caption id="attachment_152722" align="aligncenter" width="590"] © Anton Bielousov/cc-by-sa-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Bayeux is a commune in the Calvados department. Bayeux is a sub-prefecture of Calvados. It is the seat of the arrondissement of Bayeux and of the canton of Bayeux. The River Aure flows through Bayeux, offering panoramic views from a number of locations. The Jardin botanique de Bayeux is a botanical garden dating from 1864. Bayeux is a major tourist attraction, best known to British and French visitor...

[ read more ]

Nymphenburg Palace in Munich

Nymphenburg Palace in Munich

[caption id="attachment_169131" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Nymphenburg Palace © Richard Bartz/cc-by-sa-2.5[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]The Nymphenburg Palace ("Castle of the Nymph"), is a Baroque palace in Munich, Bavaria. The palace was the main summer residence of the former rulers of Bavaria of the House of Wittelsbach. The palace, together with its park, is now one of the most famous sights of Munich. The baroque facades comprise an overall width of about 700 metres. Some rooms still show their original baroque decorati...

[ read more ]

Severomorsk in Russia

Severomorsk in Russia

[caption id="attachment_229993" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Northern Fleet © flickr.com - Сергей Шинкарюк/cc-by-2.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Severomorsk, known as Vayenga until April 18, 1951, is a closed town in Murmansk Oblast, Russia. Severomorsk is the main administrative base of the Russian Northern Fleet. The town is located on the coast of the Barents Sea along the Kola Bay 25 kilometers (16 mi) northeast of Murmansk, the administrative centre of the oblast, to which it is connected by railway and a m...

[ read more ]

Cape Coral on the Gulf of Mexico

Cape Coral on the Gulf of Mexico

[caption id="attachment_162464" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Yacht Club Beach © capecoral.net[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Cape Coral is a city located in Lee County in Florida on the Gulf of Mexico. Founded in 1957 and developed as a master-planned, pre-platted community, the city grew to a population of 180,000 by the year 2015. Cape Coral is the largest city between Tampa and Miami. It is a principal city in the Cape Coral – Fort Myers, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city is known as a "Waterfront Wonderland",...

[ read more ]

One57 in New York

One57 in New York

[caption id="attachment_191662" align="aligncenter" width="590"] © flickr.com - Anthony Quintano/cc-by-2.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]One57, formerly known as Carnegie 57 and nicknamed "The Billionaire Building", is a 75-story (marketed as 90-story) supertall skyscraper at 157 West 57th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues in the Midtown neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Upon completion in 2014, it stood at 1,005 feet (306 m) tall, making it the tallest residential building in the city for a few months until the comp...

[ read more ]

Gdańsk, an open city

Gdańsk, an open city

[caption id="attachment_149047" align="aligncenter" width="429"] Gdansk Collage © Michal Slupczewski[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Gdańsk is a city on the Baltic coast in northern Poland, at the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area. The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay (of the Baltic Sea), in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the Tricity (Trójmiasto), with a population of over 800,000. Gdańsk itself h...

[ read more ]

Bermuda

Bermuda

[caption id="attachment_153820" align="aligncenter" width="590"] View from top of Gibbs Lighthouse © Mike Oropeza[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Bermuda is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, its nearest landmass is Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, about 1,030 kilometres (640 mi) to the west-northwest. It is about 1,373 kilometres (853 mi) south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and 1,770 kilometres (1,100 mi) northeast of Miami, Florida. Its capital city is Hamilto...

[ read more ]

Return to TopReturn to Top
© lodhaworldtowers.in
World One in Mumbai

World One is a supertall residential skyscraper under construction in Mumbai, India. It is located in Lower Parel, South Mumbai...

© Tango7174/cc-by-sa-4.0
Abbey of the Dormition in Jerusalem

Abbey of the Dormition is an abbey and the name of a Benedictine community in Jerusalem on Mount Zion just...

© Andreas Praefcke/cc-by-3.0
German Opera Berlin

The Deutsche Oper Berlin is an opera company located in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin. The resident building is the...

Schließen