Japanese warship Nisshin
Japanese warship Nisshin
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| Name: | Nisshin |
| Builder: | Netherlands |
| Laid down: | December 29, 1867 |
| Launched: | January 10, 1868 |
| Commissioned: | March 3, 1870 |
| Decommissioned: | March 25, 1892 |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1893 |
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| Displacement: | 1,468 long tons (1,492 t) |
| Length: | 62 m (203 ft 5 in) |
| Beam: | 9.7 m (31 ft 10 in) |
| Draught: | 4.9 m (16 ft 1 in) |
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| Sail plan: | Barque-rigged sloop |
| Speed: | 9 knots (10 mph; 17 km/h) |
| Range: | 200 tons of coal |
| Complement: | 250 |
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Nisshin (日進?) was an iron-ribbed, wooden-hulled three-masted screw sloop with a coal-fired steam engine of the early Meiji period, serving with the fledgling Imperial Japanese Navy.
Nisshin was ordered in the Kingdom of the Netherlands by Saga Domain in 1867 by the domain’s representative to Europe, Sano Tsunetami. It was laid down at C. Gips & Co. at Dordrecht on January 23, 1868, launched on February 20, 1869 and completed on April 12, 1869. The engines were constructed by the factories of Paul van Vlissingen and Dudok van Heel at Amsterdam and the Netherlands Steamship Company at Rotterdam. The total cost amounted to 273,900 Guilders. The design of the ship was based on the Royal Netherlands Navy’s Watergeus The ship departed from Brouwershaven to Japan under command of Captain J. Vroom with a crew of 42, after the test runs had been satisfactory.
On March 3, 1870, she arrived at Nagasaki, and was named Nisshin-maru (日進丸?) by Saga Domain.
Nisshin Maru was transferred from Saga Domain to the new Meiji government on June 22, 1870 and assigned to the newly formed Imperial Japanese Navy, as the Nisshin-kan. He was one of the ships assigned to the Taiwan Expedition of 1874.
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