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Nippon Maru

IMO 5253157Built 1930

Photo: TYORON2 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file

No gross tonnage is recorded for this vessel, so it cannot be ranked by size. Rank is only shown where the underlying measurement exists.

In brief

About Nippon Maru

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Nippon Maru (日本丸) 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.
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.

Quoted from Nippon Maru (1930) on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Vessel particulars

Identification and dimensions

Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.

Identification

In context

How Nippon Maru compares

Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

Nippon Maru was built in 1930, making it 96 years old. It is one of 73 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,592 GT. Across the whole of the 1930s the registry holds 552 vessels, median 1,138 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 1 vessels to Kawasaki Shipyard, delivered between 1930 and 1930. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 97.0 m overall, Nippon Maru is 18.0 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 12.9 m and a draft of 6.9 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5253157 this registry holds 5 other vessels, whose median build year is 1937 and which range from 1899 to 1947. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1930.

Its IMO number, 5253157, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 2×6 + 5×5 + 3×4 + 1×3 + 5×2 = 97 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.

Nearest by IMO number

Ship	IMO	Built
MV Nino Bixio	5252880	1941
Unitas	5253470	1937
Nisshin Maru No.3	5253494	1947
Nina	5252660	1899

Provenance

Where this page comes from

Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.

Written summaryQuoted from Nippon Maru (1930) on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

PhotographBy TYORON2, reused under CC BY-SA 3.0.

All unclassifieds Built by Kawasaki Shipyard