Awa Maru (1899)
{{Short description|Japanese ocean liner}}
{{about|the steamship launched in 1899|the motor vessel launched in 1942|MV Awa Maru}}
| {{Infobox ship begin}}
{{Infobox ship image |Ship image= |Ship caption= Awa Maru }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=Japan |Ship flag=File:Flag of Japan.svg |Ship name=Awa Maru |Ship operator=File:NYK Line house flag.svg Nippon Yusen (NYK) |Ship ordered= |Ship builder=Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Nagasaki, Japan |Ship yard number=102 |Ship laid down=20 June 1898 |Ship launched=27 July 1899 |Ship completed=14 November 1899 |Ship renamed= |Ship acquired= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service=1930 |Ship fate=Scrapped |Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class= |Ship tonnage={{GRT|6,309|disp=long}} |Ship displacement= |Ship length={{convert|135.6|m|ft|abbr=on}} |Ship beam={{convert|15.1|m|ft|abbr=on}} |Ship height= |Ship draught= |Ship draft= |Ship ice class= |Ship sail plan= |Ship propulsion= |Ship speed={{convert|13|kn|km/h}} |Ship capacity= |Ship crew= |Ship notes= }} |
The {{nihongo|Awa Maru|阿波丸}} was a Japanese ocean liner owned by Nippon Yusen Kaisha. The ship was built in 1899 by Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. at Nagasaki, Japan.
The ship's name comes in part from the ancient province of Awa.Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1935). [https://books.google.com/books?id=PdNAAAAAIAAJ&q=Asama+Maru The Nomenclature of the N.Y.K. Fleet, pp. 8, 80.] This turn-of-the-20th-century Awa Maru was the first NYK vessel to bear this name.Harris, Charles B. (1905). [https://books.google.com/books?id=zGVJAAAAMAAJ&q=awa+maru "Shipbuilding at Nagasaki" (December 13, 1899), Monthly consular and trade reports, p. 314.] A second mid-century, 11,249 ton Awa Maru was completed in 1943.Haworth, R.B. [http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz/ Miramar Ship Index]: [http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz/ship/list?search_op=OR&IDNo=4004181 ID #4049894]
History
The ship was built by Mitsubishi at Nagasaki on the southern island of Kyushu. The keel was laid down on June 20, 1898. The Awa Maru was launched on July 27, 1899; and she was completed November 14, 1899.
The ship sailed the route between Japan and England,Hamilton, Louis. (1908). [https://books.google.com/books?id=V3wSAAAAIAAJ&dq=awa+maru&pg=PA149 The English Newspaper Reader. p. 149.] By 1914, the ship settled into a regular schedule of sailings between Yokohama and Seattle.Tate, E. Mowbray. (1986). [https://books.google.com/books?id=OuUvlfcIGRQC&q=awa+maru Transpacific steam: the story of steam navigation from the Pacific Coast of North America to the Far East and the Antipodes, 1867-1941, p. 122.] and she would be taken out of service in 1930.
On December 27, 1906, the Awa Maru ran aground on the West Scar Rocks off Redcar. There were no deaths, thanks to the efforts of the Redcar lifeboat crew and local fishermen, and after eighteen days the vessel was successfully refloated.
Arguably the most important voyage of this Awa Maru began when it left Yokohama on February 14, 1912, carrying 3,020 cherry trees of twelve varieties.Constable, Pamela.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/07/AR2007040701318.html "Nurturing a Legacy of Fleeting Blossoms and Enduring Bonds"], Washington Post, April 8, 2007. p. A-1; [https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootbearwdc/294210170 dbking notes, 1912 shipment of cherry trees]. These fragile tree slips were bound for Seattle where they were trans-shipped across the North American continent via insulated freight cars. On arrival in Washington, D.C., these trees they would form the genesis of the National Cherry Blossom Festival.{{Cite book|title=The Autobiography of Ozaki Yukio: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in Japan|last1=Ozaki|first1=Yukio|authorlink1=Yukio Ozaki|last2=Hara|first2=Fujiko|last3=Marius B|first3=Jansen|publisher=Princeton University Press|date=2001|pages=231–233}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.islands.ne.jp/8686/column/20010315.html |title=The English Academy Times |access-date=2009-07-02 |archive-date=2007-02-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070227082826/http://www.islands.ne.jp/8686/column/20010315.html |url-status=dead }} The English Academy Times'' (Ehime, Japan). 2001.
Notes
{{reflist|2}}
References
- Ponsonby-Fane, Richard Arthur Brabazon. (1935). [https://books.google.com/books?id=PdNAAAAAIAAJ&q=Asama+Maru The Nomenclature of the N.Y.K. Fleet.] Tokyo : Nippon Yusen Kaisha. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27933596 OCLC 27933596]
- Tate, E. Mowbray. (1986). [https://books.google.com/books?id=OuUvlfcIGRQC&q=Asama+Maru Transpacific steam: the story of steam navigation from the Pacific Coast of North America to the Far East and the Antipodes, 1867-1941.] New York: Cornwall Books. {{ISBN|978-0-8453-4792-8}}; {{OCLC|12370774}}
- U.S. Bureau of Manufactures, Bureau of Foreign Commerce. (1905). [https://books.google.com/books?id=zGVJAAAAMAAJ&q=awa+maru Monthly consular and trade reports (1854-1903).] Washington, D.C.: Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office. {{OCLC|13504256}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Awa Maru, 1899}}