Japanese Battleship Kaiyai Maru

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Kaiy¿ Maru was one of Japan's first modern warships, powered by both sails and steam. She was ordered in the Netherlands in 1863 by the Bakufu, the government of the Shogun, the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij acting as agents. The ship was built at the yard of Cornelis Gips and Sons in Dordrecht, The Netherlands for the sum of 831,200 guilders. The construction was overseen by a Japanese military mission under Uchida Masao and Akamatsu Noriyoshi.