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*''Built: c. [[1867]]''
*''Sank: [[1868]]/11/15''
*''Japanese'': 開陽丸 ''(Kaiyou-maru)''
The ''Kaiyô-maru'' was a warship commissioned by the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] from the Netherlands and obtained by the shogunate in [[1867]]. The following year, it became the flagship of the fleet of pro-shogunate loyalists led by [[Enomoto Takeaki]] and was used in the [[battle of Hakodate]] against anti-shogunate Imperial forces, but was lost in that battle.
Roughly 73 feet long, the ''Kaiyô-maru'' was a wooden sailing ship fitted with a steam engine.
Enomoto and his men took the ''Kaiyô-maru'' out of [[Edo Bay]] on 1868/8/19 along with other ships as they fled to [[Ezo]] ([[Hokkaido]]) from [[Edo]]. Fighting began in concert with their arrival in Ezo in the 10th month. On 11/15, the ''Kaiyô-maru'' struck a sandbar amidst a storm in the waters off Esashi, and sank.
Maritime archaeological efforts overseen by the local Esashi Town Board of Education have recovered some 30,000 items from the wreck since 1970.
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==References==
*Gallery labels, Hokkaido Museum.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/52227009164/sizes/h/]
[[Category:Bakumatsu]]
[[Category:Ships]]
*''Sank: [[1868]]/11/15''
*''Japanese'': 開陽丸 ''(Kaiyou-maru)''
The ''Kaiyô-maru'' was a warship commissioned by the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] from the Netherlands and obtained by the shogunate in [[1867]]. The following year, it became the flagship of the fleet of pro-shogunate loyalists led by [[Enomoto Takeaki]] and was used in the [[battle of Hakodate]] against anti-shogunate Imperial forces, but was lost in that battle.
Roughly 73 feet long, the ''Kaiyô-maru'' was a wooden sailing ship fitted with a steam engine.
Enomoto and his men took the ''Kaiyô-maru'' out of [[Edo Bay]] on 1868/8/19 along with other ships as they fled to [[Ezo]] ([[Hokkaido]]) from [[Edo]]. Fighting began in concert with their arrival in Ezo in the 10th month. On 11/15, the ''Kaiyô-maru'' struck a sandbar amidst a storm in the waters off Esashi, and sank.
Maritime archaeological efforts overseen by the local Esashi Town Board of Education have recovered some 30,000 items from the wreck since 1970.
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==References==
*Gallery labels, Hokkaido Museum.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/52227009164/sizes/h/]
[[Category:Bakumatsu]]
[[Category:Ships]]
