Kaiwo Maru, Kaiwomaru Park 20080721115059

is a Japanese former training

barque A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts having the fore- and mainmasts rigged square and only the mizzen (the aftmost mast) rigged fore and aft. Sometimes, the mizzen is only partly fore-and-aft rigged, b ...

. She was built by

Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation is the shipbuilding subsidiary of Kawasaki Heavy Industries. It produces primarily specialized commercial vessels, including LNG carriers, LPG carriers, container ships, bulk carriers, oil tankers, as well as high speed passenger jetfoils. In ...

in Kobe, and was launched on 27 January 1930 alongside her sister ship ''

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''. She was operated by the Tokyo Institute for Maritime Training to train officers for Japan's merchant marine. At the beginning of

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, her sailing rig was removed and she served as a training and postwar transport motorship. In 1955, her rig was reinstalled and she resumed her training voyages until she was replaced in 1989 by her successor, also named ''Kaiwo Maru''. In August 1955 the ship was filmed by Mike Todd for the movie Around the World in 80 Days. She is now a museum ship located in

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. ''Kaiwo Maru'' measures long, with a beam of and a draft of . Her gross tonnage is 2,286. She is rigged as a four-masted barque, with 32 sails covering , 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.

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