Japanese barque Kankō Maru
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Kankō Maru was Japan's first steam-powered warship. It was presented to the Tokugawa shogunate ruling Japan during the Bakumatsu period as a gift from King William III of the Netherlands to assist Jan
Kankō Maru, Japan's first steam warship, 1855
Kankō Maru (replica)
Jan Hendrik Donker Curtius was the last Opperhoofd of the Dutch trading post in Japan, located at Dejima an artificial island in the harbor of Nagasaki. To negotiate with the Japanese government for a
Japanese barque Kankō Maru
…warship. It was presented to the Tokugawa shogunate ruling Japan during the Bakumatsu period as a gift from King William III of the Netherlands to assist Janus Henricus Donker Curtius, head of the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij (Netherlands Trading Society) in Japan in his efforts to establish formal diplomatic relations and the…
Photograph of Donker Curtius 1862, The Hague